Not One More! Feminicidio on the Border

194 Pages·2019·15.901 MB·English

by  Nina Maria Lozano

N OT O N E
M O R E !
—
FEMINICIDIO
ON THE
BORDER
|
Nina Maria Lozano
NOT ONE MORE!
NEW DIRECTIONS IN RHETORIC AND MATERIALITY
Barbara A. Biesecker, Wendy S. Hesford, and Christa Teston, Series Editors
NOT ONE MORE!
FEMINICIDIO
ON THE BORDER
NINA MARIA LOZANO
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
COLUMBUS
Copyright © 2019 by The Ohio State University.
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Control Number: 2018042720
Cover design by Susan Zucker
Text design by Juliet Williams
Type set in Adobe Minion Pro
Written for the Mothers and family members of the disap-
peared and murdered women and girls in Ciudad Juárez. For
the activists who, in solidarity, continue to struggle for justice.
For the murdered and disappeared women and girls of Ciudad
Juárez. Your stories, histories, and lives will not be forgotten.
¡Ni Una Más!
!Ni Una Menos!
I dream of my daughter every night. And I always hug her.
Always. I hug her and don’t have the heart to tell her what they
did to her. Until the last day, until my last breath, I will continue
to look for her. I love her with all my heart, and will always. My
daughter is with me; they haven’t taken her from me. The fact
that she’s not physically here, doesn’t mean she really isn’t. It’s
what’s kept me alive. I keep waiting for her. I keep looking for her.
Even if they told me what they did to her. It means nothing.
—Susana, Mother of Maria Guadalupe Pérez Montes
C O N T E N T S
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Preface Feminicidio in Ciudad Juárez xv
INTRODUCTION New Materialism and Border Materialism 1
CHAPTER 1 Waves of Feminicidio 19
CHAPTER 2 Feminicidio and the “Enchanted” Assemblages of
Things 46
CHAPTER 3 Feminicidio, Public Memory, and “Thing Power” 69
CHAPTER 4 Feminicidio, Objects, and Affect 87
CHAPTER 5 Lifeless or “Vibrant Matter”? 107
CONCLUSION 123
Bibliography 137
Index 153

I L L U S T R AT I O N S
BLACK AND WHITE FIGURES
FIGURE 0.1 Disappeared flyer xx
FIGURE 0.2 Feminicidio graph xxi
FIGURE 1.1 Government shooting range 30
FIGURE 1.2 Deserted colónia of Guadalupe 41
FIGURE 2.1 Dwellings in Lomas de Poleo 53
FIGURE 3.1 Government feminicidio monument plaque 73
FIGURE 3.2 Pink crosses 76
FIGURE 3.3 Painting the riverbed 80
FIGURE 3.4 Missing poster advertisement 84
FIGURE 4.1 Mural of US role in feminicidio 92
FIGURE 4.2 Mural of Monica Alanis 93
FIGURE 4.3 Mural of Karla Castañeda and Cinthia Jocabeth 95
FIGURE 4.4 Mural of Sagrario Gonzalez Flores 97
FIGURE 5.1 Rastreo in Arroyo del Navajo 113
FIGURE 5.2 Possible feminicidio remains 117
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