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Violence and Naming - On Mexico and the Promise of Literature (Hardcover)
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Violence and Naming - On Mexico and the Promise of Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Border Hispanisms
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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.
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