Violence and naming : on Mexico and the promise of literature /

<P>Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, <i>Violence and Naming</i> exposes the tension between the irreducible, constitutive violence of language and the reducible, empirical violation of o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, David E., 1959- (Autor)
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Border Hispanisms.
Temas:
Mexican literature > History and criticism.
Women > Crimes against > Mexico.
Women's rights > Mexico.
Violence > Mexico.
Violence in literature.
Literature and society > Mexico.
Littérature mexicaine > Histoire et critique.
Femmes > Crimes contre > Mexique.
Femmes > Droits > Mexique.
Violence > Mexique.
Violence dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > Mexique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
Literature and society.
Mexican literature.
Violence.
Women > Crimes against.
Women's rights.
Mexico.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:<P>Reclaiming the notion of literature as an institution essential for reflecting on the violence of culture, history, and politics, <i>Violence and Naming</i> 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 Gonz?lez Rodr?guez to the Zapatista <i>communiqu?s</i> to Roberto Bola?o's <i>The Savage Detectives</i> and <i>2666</i>, 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.</p><p> 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, <i>Violence and Naming</i> 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.</p>
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781477317983
1477317988

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