Journey to the Ruins of Modernity: Euforia and 40 días

Sánchez-Prado, Ignacio M.

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Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands

Valdés Olmos

2023

Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society

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Although conventionally imagined through the registers of the frontier, this chapter asks how the notion of the hinterland facilitates a different political understanding of the rural US West as affected by capitalism. While Phil Neel’s 2018 Hinterland makes the rural visible as an essential node in the infrastructure of global capitalism, this chapter explores how it also marks the rural US West as ruined and vacated of meaningful political resistance. Chloé Zhao’s film Nomadland, through an interlocution of the hinterland with the western and the road movie, imagines resistance in more ambivalent ways that emphasize capitalism’s interwovenness with heteronormativity and settler colonialism. Nevertheless, the affective economies at play in both representations reaffirm a settler colonial logic that erases Indigenous Americans as active political subjects.

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Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands

Valdés Olmos

2023

Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society

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Writing Refugee Crisis in the Age of Amazon:Lost Children Archive's Reenactment Play

Stuelke¹

2021

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This essay analyzes Valeria Luiselli's 2019 novel Lost Children Archive's attempt to imagine anti-imperialist solidarity aesthetics in a moment of the increasing imbrication of the US literary sphere and settler colonial capitalist surveillance of the US-Mexico border, as well as the nonprofit care regime that has arisen to oppose and ameliorate its effects. Because these structures converge around overt and subterranean investments in settler colonial frontier fantasy, the essay focuses particularly on Lost Children Archive's engagement with the tradition of the white male road novel Western in the Americas—Luiselli's attempts to write both through and against this form—as part of the novel's larger attempt to grapple with the formal problems that adhere in representing the temporality and scale of ongoing Central American Indigenous dispossession and refugee displacement in settler colonial capitalism. In exploring the degree to which the Western genre's tradition of, per Philip Deloria, “playing Indian” might oppose the brutal bureaucratic violence of the xenophobic carceral settler US state, the novel builds a critique of the frontier road novel fantasy that it cannot quite sustain.

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Journey to the Ruins of Modernity: Euforia and 40 días

Cited by 2 publications

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Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands

Ambivalence and Resistance in Contemporary Imaginations of US Capitalist Hinterlands

Writing Refugee Crisis in the Age of Amazon:Lost Children Archive's Reenactment Play

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