Abstracts v Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 The Juárez Femicides: Approximation of a Transnational Imaginary 17 I Scenes and Machines Texts, 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 73 II The Journalistic Angle (Narrative and Illustration) Border Violence as Spectacle in Photo/Graphic Non-Fiction 108 III 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 223 IV 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 269 in Willivaldo Delgadillo's Garabato Works Cited 326 Appendix 350.