Looking at the Border Wall in 'Brown Neon'

Authors

  • Daniel Runnels University of Central Missouri

Keywords:

looking, border, desert, art

Abstract

This essay reflects on Raquel Gutiérrez's celebrated 2022 collections of essays Brown Neon. Specifically, the article considers what the text has to say about looking at the border wall at the United States' southern border and some of what is at stake when we look at such structures. 

References

Derrida, J. (2001) ‘The Taste of Tears.’ In Naas, M. and Brault, P-A. (eds) The Work of Mourning. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 107-110.

Gutiérrez, R. (2022) Brown Neon. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press.

Roitman, J. (2014) Anti-Crisis. Durham: Duke University Press.

Schauwecker, L. (2020) ‘Isolation and Intimacy in the Sonoran Desert: A Migrant’s Account.’ Literary Geographies, 6(2), pp. 250-255.

Sontag, Susan. (2003) Regarding the Pain of Others. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Published

2024-10-30

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Section

Thinking Space