Benigno Trigo is Professor of Latin American Literature at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of several books, including Remembering Maternal Bodies: Melancholy in Latina and Latin American Women's Writing, and the editor of Foucault and Latin America: Appropriations and Deployments of Discursive Analysis.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Benigno Trigo

Part I

1. Whodunit? Reading Kristeva with the Help of Detective Fiction
S. K. Keltner

2. Revolution Has Italian Roots: Kristeva's Fiction and Theory
Carol Mastrangelo Bové

3. Not a Country for Old Men: Scapegoats and Sacrifice in Santa Varvara
Martha Reineke

4. Sebastian's Skull: Establishing the "Society of the Icon"
Frances L. Restuccia

5. From the Agency of the Letter to the Agency of the Icon: Femininity and Bulgaria in Julia Kristeva's Murder in Byzantium
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek

Part II

6. Noir Analysis: How Kristeva's Detective Novels Renew Psychoanalysis
Benigno Trigo

7. Fiction, Analysis, Possession, and Violence in Kristeva's Mirror of Writing
John Lechte

8. Byzantium, or Fiction as Inverted Theory
Miglena Nikolchina

9. The Vital Legacy of the Novel and Julia Kristeva's Fictional Revolt
Maria Margaroni

Works Cited
Contributors
Index