LEADER 04559nam 22007333 450 001 9910862096703321 005 20231110232505.0 010 $a1-4773-2602-2 024 7 $a10.7560/326015 035 $a(CKB)5580000000397174 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7119738 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7119738 035 $a(OCoLC)1348485610 035 $a(DE-B1597)642464 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477326022 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000397174 100 $a20221201d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVisible Borders, Invisible Economies $eLiving Death in Latinx Narratives 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2022. 210 4$d©2022. 215 $a1 online resource (283 pages) 225 1 $aLatinx: the Future Is Now 311 $a1-4773-2601-4 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aGlobalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here. Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the living, laboring dead. Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli?s Tell Me How It Ends and Alex Rivera?s Sleep Dealer crystallize the experience of Latinx subjects and migrants subjugated to social death, their political existence erased by disenfranchisement and racist violence while their bodies still toil in behalf of corporate profits. In Kristy L. Ulibarri?s telling, art clarifies what power obscures: the national-security state performs anti-immigrant and xenophobic politics that substitute cathartic nationalism for protections from the free market while ensuring maximal corporate profits through the manufacture of disposable migrant labor. 410 0$aLatinx (Series) 517 $aVisible Borders, Invisible Economies 606 $aGovernment, Resistance to$zUnited States 606 $aLatin Americans in literature 606 $aLatin Americans in motion pictures 606 $aLatin Americans$xViolence against$zUnited States 606 $aLatin Americans$zUnited States$xEconomic conditions 606 $aLatin Americans$zUnited States$xSocial conditions 606 $aNational security$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aNeoliberalism and literature$zUnited States 606 $aNeoliberalism in literature 606 $aNeoliberalism$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General$2bisacsh 615 0$aGovernment, Resistance to 615 0$aLatin Americans in literature. 615 0$aLatin Americans in motion pictures. 615 0$aLatin Americans$xViolence against 615 0$aLatin Americans$xEconomic conditions. 615 0$aLatin Americans$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aNational security$xSocial aspects 615 0$aNeoliberalism and literature 615 0$aNeoliberalism in literature. 615 0$aNeoliberalism$xSocial aspects 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General. 676 $a809.93352968 700 $aUlibarri$b Kristy L$01740739 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910862096703321 996 $aVisible Borders, Invisible Economies$94166548 997 $aUNINA