Las brujas y el amor. ‘Malquerencia’ y crimen pasional en la narrativa mexicana de signo feminista

Based on the notion of "Feminist Rereading of the Witch Hunt (FRWH)", this essay proposes a reading of feminist representations of the witch in relation to love and affective-sexual issues. To do this, it examines how witches have been constructed as experts in matters of love since the earliest ancient representations, highlighting the themes that will be revisited in contemporary literature from feminist perspectives. This framework is applied to the analysis of three recently published Mexican narratives, in which witch characters are woven into plots that link love and romance with violence and suffering: Temporada de huracanes (Fernanda Melchor, 2017), Brujas (Brenda Lozano, 2021), and Medea me cantó un corrido (Dahlia de la Cerda, 2024). Through this representation, it will be shown how critical discourses surrounding romantic love are mobilized, revealing the feminist concerns of the present, which are channeled through the updating or rewriting of the witch character.