Disposable Bodies: Undocumented Migrants and La jaula de oro’s Poetics of Austerity
The film La jaula de oro (The Golden Dream, 2013), by Mexican-Spanish director Diego Quemada-Diez, begins in a landfill in Guatemala City and ends with one of its main characters, Juan, gathering waste in a meat processing plant, somewhere in the northern United States. Having crossed two borders, s...
Main Author: | Silvia Mejía |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Latin American Research Commons
2021-08-01
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Series: | Latin American Literary Review |
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Online Access: | https://account.lalrp.net/index.php/lasa-j-lalr/article/view/245 |
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