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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Autor principal: Ulibarri, Kristy L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022]
Colección:Latinx: The Future Is Now
Temas:
Government, Resistance to > United States.
Latin Americans in literature.
Latin Americans in motion pictures.
Latin Americans > Violence against > United States.
Latin Americans > United States > Economic conditions.
Latin Americans > United States > Social conditions.
National security > Social aspects > United States.
Neoliberalism and literature > United States.
Neoliberalism in literature.
Neoliberalism > Social aspects > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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