Exporting Manhood: Adaptation and the Post NAFTA Latinx Novel
This essay examines the figure of the vanishing male in a trio of novels Cristina Rivera Garza's La muerte me da, Luis Alberto Urrea's Into the Beautiful North, and James Canon's Tales from the Town of Widows whose circa 2007 publication speaks to the fifteen year legacy of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The essay argues for a notion of "adaptive belonging" as a formal and political strategy for coping with neoliberal policies' hemispheric shift.