Scales of Captivity
Author(s)
Brady, Mary Pat
Collection
Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
literature; density; scaffold imaginary; deportationDOI
10.1215/9781478022558ISBN
9781478092445, 9781478022558, 9781478015314, 9781478017936, 9781478092445Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Durham, 2022Classification
Literature: history and criticism