Abstract

The article contributes to the study of the gender perspective in fictional narrative of cases of violence of State terrorism. A genealogical-historical view of the discursive formations of the “regulatory ideal” (Foucault) of the heterosexual family in Latin America unfolds. Sommer’s proposal on the political-erotic idyll of foundational fic- tions is integrated. We articulate the reflection on gender with the ethnic variable, which brings us back to the founding scene of the Conquest, to another type of Latin American family formed by “mothers and huachos” (Montecino). In the latter, the symbolic thickness of Marianism shows a particular appropriation of the ideologema of the beatería. The motive for gender revenge is analyzed in the stories Killer whores of Roberto Bolaño and Meat of bitch of Fátima Sime. It follows that the ideologies of sanctimoniousness and chauvinism, function as valid operational concepts to address gender issues.