Writing Juárez

Violence, Resistance, and the US-Mexico Border

AvTobias A. Jochum

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

A rigorous reflection on recent literary accounts of violence at the US-Mexico border.Writing Juárez is a rigorous reflection on recent literary accounts of violence at the US-Mexico border. The book foregrounds questions of political resistance and representational ethics. Adopting a truly hemispheric approach, the study brings together Mexican anthropologies of violence, critical geography, political theory, continental philosophy, and postcolonial media and affect theory to examine literature from both sides of the border. Jochum's survey of the border town's transnational imaginary hones in on three seminal books, each emblematic for a particular model, author position, and historical inflection point. Against a long trajectory casting Ciudad Juárez as an overdetermined space of abjection, Tobias A. Jochum shows how a proliferation of creative, critical, and civic responses to the brutal effects of neoliberalism and militarization since the 1990s has generated new epistemologies and conceptual vocabularies that speak to a larger crisis of Modernity far beyond the confines of the neoliberal borderlands.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-12-18
Mått:140 x 216 x 10 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Nordamerikastudien
Antal sidor:420
Förlag:Campus Verlag
ISBN:9783593515632

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Tobias A. Jochum is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin

Innehållsförteckning

Abstracts vAcknowledgements viiIntroduction 1The Juárez Femicides: Approximation of a Transnational Imaginary 17I Scenes and MachinesTexts, Contexts, and the Dialectics of Proximity and Distance(1) Three Preliminary Scenes of Violence and Spectatorship 44(2) The Femicidal Scene in a Contemporary Panorama of Atrocity 53(3) Mexican Misery: Confronting Medusa, Theorizing Machines 73II The Journalistic Angle (Narrative and Illustration)Border Violence as Spectacle in Photo/Graphic Non-Fiction 108III The View from the Distance (Novelization and Genre)Savage Modernity in Roberto Bolaño's 2666(1) "Our Curse and Our Mirror" 154(2) Death Displays and Disposable Detectives 188(3) The Monsters of Demodernization 223IV The Local Literary Imagination (Can the Dystopian Speak?)Narrative Responses to Militarization in Recent Juarense Fiction 250(1) Stuck at the Wheel: Ricardo Vigueras' A vuelta de ruedas tras la muerte 254(2) Staging Stasis in Diego Ordaz' Los días y el polvo (Bartleby Prelude) 265(3) Border Bartleby: Itinerant Memory and the Politics of Indeterminacy 269in Willivaldo Delgadillo's GarabatoWorks Cited 326Appendix 350