Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child

by Mary Pat Brady

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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 Mar?a Viramontes,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1478015314

ISBN13:9781478015314

Release Date:March 2022

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.29 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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