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Title

  • Scales of captivity : racial capitalism and the Latinx child

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Names

  • Brady, Mary Pat, 1961- author

Created / Published

  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Contents

  • The Scalar Lien -- Lola's Secret -- Plausible Deniability: Pursuing the Traces of Captivity -- Earthly Motions -- N + 1: Sex and the Hypervisual (Invisible) Migrant -- Misplaced: Peopling a Deportation Imaginary.

Headings

  • -  American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism
  • -  Children in literature
  • -  Deportation in literature
  • -  Emigration and immigration in literature
  • -  Hispanic Americans in literature
  • -  Immigrant children--Mexican-American Border Region
  • -  LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino
  • -  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PS153.H56

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021021368

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Brady, Mary Pat, Author. Scales of captivity: racial capitalism and the Latinx child. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021021368/.

APA citation style:

Brady, M. P. (2022) Scales of captivity: racial capitalism and the Latinx child. Durham: Duke University Press. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021021368/.

MLA citation style:

Brady, Mary Pat, Author. Scales of captivity: racial capitalism and the Latinx child. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021021368/>.