Description
Product ID: | 9781477326572 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Series: | Latinx: The Future Is Now |
Title: | Visible Borders, Invisible Economies |
Subtitle: | Living Death in Latinx Narratives |
Authors: | Author: Kristy L. Ulibarri |
Page Count: | 280 |
Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Social and cultural history, Ethnic studies, Literature: history & criticism, Social & cultural history, Ethnic studies |
Description: | A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film. 2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies 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. |
Imprint Name: | University of Texas Press |
Publisher Name: | University of Texas Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-11-22 |