David E. Johnson

Violence and Naming: On Mexico and the Promise of Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling reassertion of the importance of "literature" (that which names) as a determiner for how we engage in and with the world, paying particular attention to violence against women and Amerindians in Mexico's recent and formative history.

Produktdetails

• Border Hispanisms
• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Behalf of University of Texas
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781477317969
• ISBN-10: 1477317961
• Artikelnr.: 54153366

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
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
Index