{"product_id":"visible-borders-invisible-economies-9781477326015","title":"Visible Borders Invisible Economies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 Outstanding Book Award, National Association for Ethnic Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVisible Borders, Invisible Economies\u003c\/i\u003e turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUlibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions . . .  The interplay of border visibility and economic invisibility reveals a politically charged truth about the disposability of immigrant life hidden within the auspices of border\/national security. Further, these truths are visible in the imagined world of art be it prose, photography, or film. * Latin@ Literatures *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market Neoliberalization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I. Documenting the Living Dead \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and Paradox\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina López, David Riker, and Alex Rivera\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II. Imagining the Living Dead \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead Economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and Undercommons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBibliography\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408962068823,"sku":"9781477326015","price":78.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781477326015.jpg?v=1730504876","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/visible-borders-invisible-economies-9781477326015","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}