Seeing the unseen: abjection, social death, and neoliberal implication in Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier

IF 0.7 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Latino Studies Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI:10.1057/s41276-024-00479-x
Isabel Quintana Wulf
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This article analyzes Héctor Tobar’s The Tattooed Soldier as a hemispheric critique of racialization and social dispossession bridging the gap between Central America and the United States. Examining the homeless and the refugee subjects in the novel as structurally equivalent, the article explores the ramifications of internal and external displacements in relation to the protections of citizenship and political asylum. It explores how neoliberal ideologies and practices allow for the creation and naturalization of urban spaces of abjection, effectively condoning the social death of subjects not deemed worthy of respect or social value. In doing so, the article demonstrates how social and spatial dispossession is subsumed into everyday life, becoming naturalized and invisible. It demonstrates how social and political disenfranchisement are constructed discursively and spatially, considering the novel’s stories of immigration and asylum-seeking not only as Latina/o/x stories but also as intrinsic parts of the stories that constitute the United States.

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看到看不见的东西:赫克托-托巴尔《纹身士兵》中的排斥、社会死亡和新自由主义暗示
本文分析了赫克托-托巴尔(Héctor Tobar)的《纹身士兵》(The Tattooed Soldier),将其视为对种族化和社会剥夺的半球批判,在中美洲和美国之间架起了一座桥梁。文章将小说中的无家可归者和难民视为结构上等同的主体,探讨了境内外流离失所对公民身份保护和政治庇护的影响。文章探讨了新自由主义的意识形态和实践如何允许城市排斥空间的产生和自然化,从而有效地纵容了被认为不值得尊重或社会价值的主体的社会死亡。在此过程中,文章展示了社会和空间的剥夺是如何被归入日常生活,变得自然化和无形的。文章展示了社会和政治权利的剥夺是如何在话语和空间上被建构的,将小说中的移民和寻求庇护的故事不仅视为拉丁裔/有色人种的故事,也视为构成美国的故事的内在组成部分。
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Latino Studies
Latino Studies SOCIOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Latino Studies has established itself as the leading, international peer-reviewed journal for advancing interdisciplinary scholarship about the lived experience and struggles of Latinas and Latinos for equality, representation, and social justice. Sustaining the tradition of activist scholarship of the founders of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Puerto Rican Studies, the journal critically engages the study of the local, national, transnational, and hemispheric realities that continue to influence the Latina and Latino presence in the United States. It is committed to developing a new transnational research agenda that bridges the academic and non-academic worlds and fosters mutual learning and collaboration among all the Latino national groups. Latino Studies provides an intellectual forum for innovative explorations and theorization. We welcome submissions of original research articles of up to 8,000 words, from scholars and practitioners in the national and international research communities. In addition to scholarly articles, we also invite other type of submissions. Vivencias or ''reports from the field'' are short personal essays between 2000-3000 words that describe and analyze significant local issues, struggles and debates affecting the lives of Latinas/os in different regions of the country. We also welcome interviews with Latinas/os who are contributing in their local communities or nationwide (e.g. authors, artists, community activists, union leaders, etc.). Our aim in publishing the ''reports'' is to inform readers about events that are sometimes over-looked by the national and regional media.The Reflexiones Pedagógicas section includes short essays between 2000-3000 words that address issues of pedagogy and curriculum. This section contributes toward the development and institutionalization of our field in the academy. Páginas Recuperadas are short essays between 2000-3000 words that seek to recover archival documents. These essays make visible, historically significant achievements by individuals, and pivotal events in the experience of Latinas/os in the United States. El Foro is an occasional section that provides a space for essays of approximately 6000 words, addressing current events, in an effort to further engage our readers in a dialogue on the pressing issues affecting Latina/o communities today.Book and media reviews are devoted to scholarship/media on the experience of Latinas/os in the United States. Reviews are no more than 1000 words.
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