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Record Nr.

UNINA9910774717903321

Autore

Brady Mary Pat <1961->

Titolo

Scales of Captivity : Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child / / Mary Pat Brady

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-4780-9244-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

810.9868073

Soggetti

American literature - Hispanic American authors

Children in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Scalar Lien -- Lola's Secret -- Plausible Deniability: Pursuing the Traces of Captivity -- Earthly Motions -- N + 1: Sex and the Hypervisual (Invisible) Migrant -- Misplaced: Peopling a Deportation Imaginary.

Sommario/riassunto

"Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive and cast-off child over 150 years of Latinx/Chicanx literature as a critique of colonial modernity and the forms of confinement that underpin racialized citizenship."--