David 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.

Ambitious, complex, and subtly argued…The commentary is rich, broad reaching, and significant. (CHOICE) Violence 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) [Violence and Naming is] a truly valuable monograph. Johnson's application of fiction as an active philosophy is impressive and illuminating. The book's bringing into dialogue of lives shattered by violence with longstanding cultural narratives and contemporary, global socio-politics is daring and necessary. (Bulletin of Spanish Studies) Violence and Naming offers a panoramic account of language and violence in Mexico...Violence and Naming is remarkable for its theoretical depth and clarity of exposition. It is a challenging read, but will prove highly rewarding to readers who are familiar with Mexican culture, with Derrida and deconstruction, or with both. (Chasqui)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Accounting for the NameChapter 1. Dar(se) cuenta: The Logic of the SecretChapter 2. Murder and Symbol: Feminicide’s RemainsChapter 3. As If . . . Literature before the WorldChapter 4. Killing Time: Jet Lag, or the Anachronism of LifeChapter 5. Suspending Sur/render: Accounting for the OtherPostscript: Fear of DemocracyNotesReferencesIndex

David 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.

Ambitious, complex, and subtly argued…The commentary is rich, broad reaching, and significant. (CHOICE) Violence 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) [Violence and Naming is] a truly valuable monograph. Johnson's application of fiction as an active philosophy is impressive and illuminating. The book's bringing into dialogue of lives shattered by violence with longstanding cultural narratives and contemporary, global socio-politics is daring and necessary. (Bulletin of Spanish Studies) Violence and Naming offers a panoramic account of language and violence in Mexico...Violence and Naming is remarkable for its theoretical depth and clarity of exposition. It is a challenging read, but will prove highly rewarding to readers who are familiar with Mexican culture, with Derrida and deconstruction, or with both. (Chasqui)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Accounting for the NameChapter 1. Dar(se) cuenta: The Logic of the SecretChapter 2. Murder and Symbol: Feminicide’s RemainsChapter 3. As If . . . Literature before the WorldChapter 4. Killing Time: Jet Lag, or the Anachronism of LifeChapter 5. Suspending Sur/render: Accounting for the OtherPostscript: Fear of DemocracyNotesReferencesIndex

David 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.

Ambitious, complex, and subtly argued…The commentary is rich, broad reaching, and significant. (CHOICE) Violence 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) [Violence and Naming is] a truly valuable monograph. Johnson's application of fiction as an active philosophy is impressive and illuminating. The book's bringing into dialogue of lives shattered by violence with longstanding cultural narratives and contemporary, global socio-politics is daring and necessary. (Bulletin of Spanish Studies) Violence and Naming offers a panoramic account of language and violence in Mexico...Violence and Naming is remarkable for its theoretical depth and clarity of exposition. It is a challenging read, but will prove highly rewarding to readers who are familiar with Mexican culture, with Derrida and deconstruction, or with both. (Chasqui)

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Accounting for the NameChapter 1. Dar(se) cuenta: The Logic of the SecretChapter 2. Murder and Symbol: Feminicide’s RemainsChapter 3. As If . . . Literature before the WorldChapter 4. Killing Time: Jet Lag, or the Anachronism of LifeChapter 5. Suspending Sur/render: Accounting for the OtherPostscript: Fear of DemocracyNotesReferencesIndex