Visible borders, invisible economies : living death in Latinx narratives /

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 reli...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Egile nagusia: Ulibarri, Kristy L. (Egilea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022.
Edizioa:First edition.
Saila:Latinx (Series)
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/326015
Aurkibidea:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market Neoliberalization
  • Part I. Documenting the Living Dead
  • 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Alberto Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
  • 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox
  • 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina López, David Riker, and Alex Rivera
  • Part II. Imagining the Living Dead
  • 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead Economy
  • 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons
  • Coda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything "Goes South"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index