Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture
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.
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Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture
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.
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Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture

Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture

by Laura Elena Belmonte
Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture

Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture

by Laura Elena Belmonte

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826368850
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 12/16/2025
Series: Contextos Series
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Laura Elena Belmonte is an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico’s Chicana and Chicano Studies Department.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chapter One. The Life of Teresa Urrea and the Yaqui Resistance Represented in Luis Alberto Urrea’s Novel The Hummingbird’s Daughter (2005)
Chapter Two. Capitalism and Complicity between the US Government and Railroad Corporations along the US-Mexico Borderlands
Chapter Three. “May We Break the Spell of the Official Story”: The Criminalization of Refugees of Color Represented in Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue (1994) and Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana (2005)
Chapter Four. Priestess y Pastora: Transnational Female Spiritual Leadership in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God (1993) and María Amparo Escandón’s Esperanza’s Box of Saints (1998)
Chapter Five. The Coatlicue State and Moebius Strip: Mirrors and Mirroring in Artwork of the US-Mexico Border
Chapter Six. Making Waves in “Tranquil Waters”: Chicanafuturism and the Invisibilization of Violence
Epilogue. Fibroblast Migration and Borderlands Consciousness

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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