THE DETECTIVE POETS OF CIUDAD JUAREZ

This paper aims to explore some of the links between language, violence and the ordinary through El silencio de la voz de todas quiebra (1999). This bookwas one of the first thorough investigations carried out about the feminicides in Ciudad Ju??rez. After considering, alongside Roberto Bola??o, Rita Segato and Veena Das, the way in which silence and secret are inscribed in the grammar of feminicide, I will show how both seep into the accounts given by the mothers and other family members of the murdered young women.