Please join us to celebrate Dr. Laura Belmonte’s inaugural book, Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance Along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture published through UNM Press. We invite you on September 26^th from 12-2pm at the Zimmerman Library’s Frank Waters Room to dialogue with Dr. Belmonte and learn more about her work.

Book summary: In Borderland Brutalities, Laura Elena Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and sanctioned by private corporations as well as the US and Mexican governments and how this violence is represented through border literature and cultural production. Belmonte examines literature, art, and film produced by artists living on both sides of the border to explore how they portray this violence and how they use their art to actively resist it. This important analysis of the border will be required reading for decades to come and lays the groundwork for additional studies on borderland violence and resistance.