Horizons Without Borders: Wendy Trevino's Cruel Fiction and the Utopian Poetry of the Commune.
Contemporary anti-capitalist and anti-racist politics are beginning to organise around the violence of borders. This comes in reaction to the re-enforcement of nation-states which has taken hold after the economic crisis of 2008. In this piece I analyze the collection of poems, Cruel Fiction, by the...
| Publicado en: | SAH: Studies in Arts & Humanities Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 49 - 67 |
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