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Author_Laura Elena Belmonte
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criminalization
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film criticism
literary criticism
marginalization
Mexico sanctioned violence
public art
Southern Pacific Railway
structural violence
US sanctioned violence
Product details
- ISBN 9780826368850
- Weight: 190g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 2026
- Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Reprint from hardcover, this work takes the actual violence of the southwestern United States and demonstrates how writers, artists, and filmmakers create and comment on the brutalities of our real world.
In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production. Belmonte examines literature, art, and film produced by artists living on both sides of the border to explore how they portray this violence and how they use their art to actively resist it. This important analysis of the border will be required reading for decades to come and lays the groundwork for additional studies on borderland violence and resistance.
In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production. Belmonte examines literature, art, and film produced by artists living on both sides of the border to explore how they portray this violence and how they use their art to actively resist it. This important analysis of the border will be required reading for decades to come and lays the groundwork for additional studies on borderland violence and resistance.
Laura Elena Belmonte is an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Chicana and Chicano Studies Department.
