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A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film.
List of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market Neoliberalization
- Part I. Documenting the Living Dead
- Chapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Chapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox
- Chapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina López, David Riker, and Alex Rivera
- Part II. Imagining the Living Dead
- Chapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead Economy
- Chapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons
- Coda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South”
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Kristy L. Ulibarri is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.
Summary
A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film.
