Borderland Brutalities
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Borderland Brutalities

Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

Borderland Brutalities

Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture

About this book

In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production. Belmonte examines literature, art, and film produced by artists living on both sides of the border to explore how they portray this violence and how they use their art to actively resist it. This important analysis of the border will be required reading for decades to come and lays the groundwork for additional studies on borderland violence and resistance.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. The LIfe of Teresa Urrea and the Yaqui Resistance Represented in Luis Alberto Urrea’s Novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter (2005)
  9. Chapter 2. Capitalism and Complicity Between the US Government and Railroad Corporations Along the US-Mexico Borderlands
  10. Chapter 3. “May We Break the Spell of the Official Story”: The Criminalization of Refugees of Color Represented in Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue (1994) and Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana (2005)
  11. Chapter 4. Priestess Y Pastora: Transnational Female Spiritual Leadership in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God (1993) and María Amparo Escandón’s Esperanza’s Box of Saints (1998)
  12. Chapter 5. The Coatlicue State and Moebius Strip: Mirrors and Mirroring in Artwork of the US-Mexico Border
  13. Chapter 6. Making Waves in “Tranquil Waters”: Chicanafuturism and the Invisibilization of Violence
  14. Epilogue: Fibroblast Migration and Borderlands Consciousness
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index