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Overview"Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, Violence and Naming exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of others. Focusing on an array of literary artifacts, from works by journalists such as Elena Poniatowska and Sergio Gonzalez Rodriguez to the Zapatista communiques to Roberto Bolano's The Savage Detectives and 2666, this examination demonstrates that Mexican culture takes place as a struggle over naming-with severe implications for the rights and lives of women and indigenous persons. Through rereadings of the Conquest of Mexico, the northern Mexican feminicide, the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, the disappearance of the forty-three students at Iguala in 2014, and the 1999 abortion-rights scandal centering on ""Paulina,"" which revealed the tenuousness of women's constitutionally protected reproductive rights in Mexico, Violence and Naming asks how societies can respond to violence without violating the other. This essential question is relevant not only to contemporary Mexico but to all struggles for democracy that promise equality but instead perpetuate incessant cycles of repression." Full Product DetailsAuthor: David E. JohnsonPublisher: University of Texas Press Imprint: University of Texas Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.594kg ISBN: 9781477317969ISBN 10: 1477317961 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 15 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Accounting for the Name Chapter 1. Dar(se) cuenta: The Logic of the Secret Chapter 2. Murder and Symbol: Feminicide’s Remains Chapter 3. As If . . . Literature before the World Chapter 4. Killing Time: Jet Lag, or the Anachronism of Life Chapter 5. Suspending Sur/render: Accounting for the Other Postscript: Fear of Democracy Notes References IndexReviewsViolence and Naming offers multiple paths to account for and rethink the intersections of literature, philosophy, and politics...The book is an insightful and provocative cluster of explorations and analyses that summons readers to evaluate, participate, and produce their own critical perspectives. * MLN * Ambitious, complex, and subtly argued...The commentary is rich, broad reaching, and significant. * CHOICE * Ambitious, complex, and subtly argued...The commentary is rich, broad reaching, and significant. --CHOICE (10/01/2019) Author InformationDavid E. Johnson is a professor of comparative literature at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and adjunct professor in the Instituto de Filosofía at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. His previous books include Anthropology’s Wake: Attending to the End of Culture (with Scott Michaelsen), Kant’s Dog: On Borges, Philosophy, and the Time of Translation, and El mundo en llamas. Since 2000, he has been the coeditor of CR: The New Centennial Review. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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