Border Biomes: Ecological Imaginaries of Mexico's Edges

This book is freely available in an open-access edition thanks to the generous support by the University of California Davis Library.

What effect do heavily fortified national borders have on the natural environments that surround them? In Border Biomes, Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez explores this question by analyzing contemporary Mexican, Latinx, and Indigenous literature that has tried to highlight the human and ecological toll of Mexico’s borders with the United States and Guatemala. ...