2025/11/23 by Guzmán Tinajero, Alfredo
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Latin American Literature Studies #Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction #Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
paper · doi:10.23692/imex.28.5
pp. 77-101 Dystopias are not planned projects of oppression, but consequences of human mistakes, warnings of what can happen if social, ecological and political devastation continues. In them, survival, resistance and the struggle for power are the main forms of existence. Moreover, their representation in fiction is linked to the geography and context of each society, making Latin American dystopias nourished by their own history of dictatorships, conflicts and disasters. The essay analyzes how the comic Ecatepunk (2020) by Joshua Hernández represents a dystopian space in Ecatepec, Mexico in which elements of resistance to real-world violence, such as gender violence, are established and constructed. Dystopia, once only an imagined possibility, has become a latent reality, reflecting social, economic and political collapse. Using recognizable elements, resistance to the creatures that seek to dominate the world and to rebuild society from the ruins of the periphery is elaborated.