Visible Borders, Invisible Economies : Living Death in Latinx Narratives

• Autore: Ulibarri Kristy L
• Pubblicazione: Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2022; ©2022
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (283 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.93352968
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Visible Borders, Invisible Economies
• Titolo autorizzato: Visible Borders, Invisible Economies
• ISBN: 1-4773-2602-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910862096703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Latinx (Series)