TY - GEN T1 - Visible borders, invisible economies : living death in Latinx narratives T2 - Latinx (Series) A1 - Ulibarri, Kristy L. LA - English PP - Austin PB - University of Texas Press YR - 2022 ED - First edition. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1348485610 AB - Globalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here. Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the living, laboring dead. Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli's Tell Me How It Ends and Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer crystallize the experience of Latinx subjects and migrants subjugated to social death, their political existence erased by disenfranchisement and racist violence while their bodies still toil in behalf of corporate profits. In Kristy L. Ulibarri's telling, art clarifies what power obscures: the national-security state performs anti-immigrant and xenophobic politics that substitute cathartic nationalism for protections from the free market while ensuring maximal corporate profits through the manufacture of disposable migrant labor. OP - 260 CN - PN1995.9.L37 U45 2022 SN - 1477326022 SN - 9781477326022 SN - 9781477326039 SN - 1477326030 SN - 9781477326572 SN - 147732657X SN - 9781477326015 SN - 1477326014 KW - Latin Americans in motion pictures. KW - Latin Americans in literature. KW - Latin Americans : United States : Social conditions. KW - Latin Americans : United States : Economic conditions. KW - Latin Americans : Violence against : United States. KW - Neoliberalism in literature. KW - Neoliberalism and literature : United States. KW - Neoliberalism : Social aspects : United States. KW - National security : Social aspects : United States. KW - Government, Resistance to : United States. KW - Latino-Américains au cinéma. KW - Latino-Américains dans la littérature. KW - Latino-Américains : États-Unis : Conditions sociales. KW - Latino-Américains : États-Unis : Conditions économiques. KW - Latino-Américains : Violence envers : États-Unis. KW - Néo-libéralisme dans la littérature. KW - Néo-libéralisme et littérature : États-Unis. KW - Néo-libéralisme : Aspect social : États-Unis. KW - Résistance au gouvernement : États-Unis. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General KW - Government, Resistance to KW - Latin Americans : Economic conditions KW - Latin Americans in literature KW - Latin Americans in motion pictures KW - Latin Americans : Social conditions KW - Neoliberalism and literature KW - Neoliberalism in literature KW - United States ER -