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Lines of Flight
Citizenship, Borders, and Migrant Subjectivity
Migration is a good instance of what anthropologists used to call a ‘total social fact.’ Politics and society, culture and economy, law and aesthetics are all traversed by the challenge of migration. Therefore, a panoply of disciplines and perspectives are at work in the study of migration, producing a huge body of knowledge but also a certain sense of fragmentation. This amazing book by Mabel Moraña is quite unique in this respect. While she builds upon a vast number of investigations from several disciplines, Moraña succeeds in providing readers with a tightly integrated framework for the analysis of one of the most challenging questions of our time. Following what she, with Gilles Deleuze, calls migrants’ ‘lines of flight,’ she masterfully intertwines the investigation of borderlands and maritime frontiers with the analysis of poetry, works of art, and philosophical debates without ever forgetting the materiality of migration. Mabel Moraña has written a landmark work that will leave a mark in future studies of borders and migration.
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Mabel Moraña is William H. Gass Professor of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, where she directs the Latin American Studies Program. She has published extensively on literary criticism and cultural theory.
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