Scales of captivity :
racial capitalism and the Latinx child /
Mary Pat Brady.

Description

Main Author

Brady, Mary Pat, 1961-

Language(s)

English

Published

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Subjects

Immigrant children.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Deportation in literature.
Children in literature.
American literature > American literature / Hispanic American authors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Deportation in literature.
Immigrant children > Immigrant children / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97005597 / Mexican-American Border Region.
Children in literature.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
American literature > American literature / Hispanic American authors > American literature / Hispanic American authors / History and criticism.
North America > North America / Mexican-American Border Region.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Summary

"In Scales of Captivity, Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive or cast-off child in Latinx and Chicanx literature and art between chattel slavery's final years and the mass deportations of the twenty-first century. She shows how Latinx expressive practices expose how every rescaling of economic and military power requires new modalities of capture, new ways to bracket and hedge life. Through readings of novels by Helena María Viramontes, Oscar Casares, Lorraine López, Maceo Montoya, Reyna Grande, Daniel Peña, and others, Brady illustrates how submerged captivities reveal the way mechanisms of constraint such as deportability underpin institutional forms of carceral modernity and how such practices scale relations by naturalizing the logic of scalar hierarchies underpinning racial capitalism. By showing how representations of the captive child critique the entrenched logic undergirding colonial power, Brady challenges racialized modes of citizenship while offering visions for living beyond borders"--

Physical Description

xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN

1478017937
1478015314


9781478017936
9781478015314

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