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Scales of Captivity : Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child / Mary Pat Brady.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brady, Mary Pat, 1961- author.
- , Cornell University, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Hispanic American authors.
- American literature.
- Children in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Scales of Captivity
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Mary Pat Brady teaches literature and Latinx studies at Cornell University and is the author of Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space, also published by Duke University Press.
- Summary:
- "Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive and cast-off child over 150 years of Latinx/Chicanx literature as a critique of colonial modernity and the forms of confinement that underpin racialized citizenship."-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781478092445
- 1478092440
- OCLC:
- 1313542611
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