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More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico Hardcover – Illustrated, March 26, 2015

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In Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, people disappear, their bodies dumped in deserted city lots or jettisoned in the unforgiving desert. All too many of them are women.

More or Less Dead analyzes how such violence against women has been represented in news media, books, films, photography, and art. Alice Driver argues that the various cultural reports often express anxiety or criticism about how women traverse and inhabit the geography of Ciudad Juárez and further the idea of the public female body as hypersexualized. Rather than searching for justice, the various media—art, photography, and even graffiti—often reuse victimized bodies in sensationalist, attention-grabbing ways. In order to counteract such views, local activists mark the city with graffiti and memorials that create a living memory of the violence and try to humanize the victims of these crimes.

The phrase “more or less dead” was coined by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño in his novel 2666, a penetrating fictional study of Juárez. Driver explains that victims are “more or less dead” because their bodies are never found or aren’t properly identified, leaving families with an uncertainty lasting for decades—or forever.

The author’s clear, precise journalistic style tackles the ethics of representing feminicide victims in Ciudad Juárez. Making a distinction between the words “femicide” (the murder of girls or women) and “feminicide” (murder as a gender-driven event), one of her interviewees says, “Women are killed for being women, and they are victims of masculine violence because they are women. It is a crime of hate against the female gender. These are crimes of power.”

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“Advances the line of critical work on the relationship of violence, death, memory, gender, and representation along the U.S.-Mexico border.”—Ignacio Corona, co-editor of Gender Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Media Representation and Public Response

“Well-written and engaging. The methodology is appropriately interdisciplinary, and the juxtaposition of a broad array of texts is original and interesting.”—Rosa Linda Fregoso, editor of Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Americas

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Alice Driver is a freelance writer, editor, and translator who received her PhD in Hispanic studies from the University of Kentucky in 2011. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where she worked with the Centro de Investigaciones sobre América del Norte to conduct research about the U.S.-Mexico border, immigration, poverty, and violence against women.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Arizona Press; 2nd ed. edition (March 26, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0816531161
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0816531165
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

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Alice Driver is a writer from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is reporting The Life and Death of the American Worker, a book about labor rights and immigration (Astra House 2024). She is working on a memoir about her mother's relationship with Maurice Sendak (formal announcement from the publisher forthcoming). Driver is the author of More or Less Dead (University of Arizona, 2015) and the translator of Abecedario de Juárez (University of Texas, 2022). Driver has worked on publications and projects with The New Yorker (online), National Geographic, Oxford American, and The New York Review of Books,

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Kari Lynn

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Great book if you want to dive into the current issues surrounding illegals & learn about their struggles throughout their journey to America.

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They enjoyed the literary analyses and also the book's focus on ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2016

Dr. Driver's book is an important contribution to cultural studies and I have used it successfully in my university classroom. Students found the book to be both readable and academic at the same time, a challenging prose to master. They enjoyed the literary analyses and also the book's focus on multi-media via photography, graffiti, maps. Exposing students to mixed media studies is vital in the 21st century, and this book is an excellent way to do so. The interviews that Dr. Driver includes bring a new perspective to the violence in Juarez, and are elegantly interwoven into the chapters. I would recommend this book for college classrooms and academic libraries.

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Alice Driver's "More or Less Dead" takes a unique and ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 26, 2016

Alice Driver's "More or Less Dead" takes a unique and welcome approach to discussing the feminicide in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico by analyzing these events through their depictions in film, music, and literature. Her analysis of Roberto Bolano's "2666" sheds new light on the text while explicating the points at which the novel departs from real life events in Juarez. Driver's interview with "Juárez: The Laboratory of our Future" and "Murder City" author Charles Bowden is a particular highlight.

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Lourdes Portillo

has written this wonderful book. It takes you to Juarez and introduces ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2016

A new and talented chronicler of what has continue to happen in Ciudad Juarez to this very day, has written this wonderful book, More or Less Dead , It takes you to Juarez and introduces you to many of the mothers and the witnesses of a never ending crime, it is precisely with her sensitivity and artistry that we can begin to see the horror and open our hearts to device a solution. A must read.

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This is a fantastic book on a terrible (but very important) topic

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2016

This is a fantastic book on a terrible (but very important) topic. Driver does a wonderful job of bringing together academic analysis with more personal perspective, particularly in her interviews. She also includes a great variety of perspectives, from Bowden to Bolaño. An invaluable resource for anyone looking to better understand the contemporary violence against women along the border (or beyond).

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Packed full of investigation and analysis yet reads like great narrative non-fiction

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2016

Packed full of investigation and analysis yet reads like great narrative non-fiction, here is an in depth look at the dangerous borderlands in Mexico, their captivating culture and lawlessness, and how difficult they are to navigate for women today. At turns heartbreaking, frustrating, inspiring. Excellent work.

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Alice Driver brings new insights into the way we look ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 12, 2016

Alice Driver brings new insights into the way we look at gender-based violence. Her writing is clear and accesible, even to those of us who are not scholars. She engages the reader from the very first paragraph.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 6, 2015

Few books captively describe the intense social circumstances of feminicide embedded within Mexico. In addition to achieving the basic goal of informing her readers, Driver's book instills in her audience a sense of deep awareness at an emotional level, far outperforming any of her textbook-like counterparts.

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