Who Killed the Writer? Intertextual Clues in Cristina Rivera Garza's 'El perfil de él'.

This article analyzes Cristina Rivera Garza's short story "El perfil de él" ("His Profile") in La frontera más distante (The Farthest Frontier, 2008) by contextualizing it in the realm of Mexican crime fiction and identifying intertextual connections, with her essays (e.g., Los muertos indóciles. Necroescrituras y desapropriación) (The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation) (2013) and her crime fiction series (e.g., La muerte me da; Death Takes Me, (2007), and with other productions (e.g., French film Hiroshima, mon amour; Hiroshima, My Love, 1959). This analysis allows us to argue that "El perfil de él" exemplifies Rivera Garza's metaphysical, anti detective and metanarrative approach to the crime genre. For the resolution of the crime, the study suggests reading into a continuum of life and fiction: Rosario Castellanos's political role as ambassador in Tel Aviv during the early 1970s Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Maria Elvira Bermúdez's detective writing techniques of mistaken identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]