04559nam 22007333 450 991086209670332120231110232505.01-4773-2602-210.7560/326015(CKB)5580000000397174(MiAaPQ)EBC7119738(Au-PeEL)EBL7119738(OCoLC)1348485610(DE-B1597)642464(DE-B1597)9781477326022(EXLCZ)99558000000039717420221201d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVisible Borders, Invisible Economies Living Death in Latinx Narratives1st ed.Austin :University of Texas Press,2022.©2022.1 online resource (283 pages)Latinx: the Future Is Now 1-4773-2601-4 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.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.Latinx (Series)Visible Borders, Invisible EconomiesGovernment, Resistance toUnited StatesLatin Americans in literatureLatin Americans in motion picturesLatin AmericansViolence againstUnited StatesLatin AmericansUnited StatesEconomic conditionsLatin AmericansUnited StatesSocial conditionsNational securitySocial aspectsUnited StatesNeoliberalism and literatureUnited StatesNeoliberalism in literatureNeoliberalismSocial aspectsUnited StatesSOCIAL SCIENCE / GeneralbisacshGovernment, Resistance toLatin Americans in literature.Latin Americans in motion pictures.Latin AmericansViolence againstLatin AmericansEconomic conditions.Latin AmericansSocial conditions.National securitySocial aspectsNeoliberalism and literatureNeoliberalism in literature.NeoliberalismSocial aspectsSOCIAL SCIENCE / General.809.93352968Ulibarri Kristy L1740739MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910862096703321Visible Borders, Invisible Economies4166548UNINA