In so doing, Latinx literature explores animate forms and practices, recuperating and expanding experience to offer alternate modalities of existence. Drawing from the ruins of capitalist society, therefore, Latinx literature re-presents and re-envisions social, political and historical legacies in an attempt to resignify life in anti-colonial and decolonial terms. These precarious states, from anti-immigration policies to carceral and racial capitalism to environmental catastrophes and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on Latinx communities, serve, for Latinx writers, as anti-colonial preoccupations informing narratives intent on writing themselves back to life. The aberrant logic of (neo)colonial practices aim to close the distance between life and death, bringing the two states into uncanny proximity by instituting death where life should flourish. Latinx writers address the distortions produced by the afterlives of colonial inheritances, blurring the borders between life and death. This conference explores the material and symbolic impact of life and death in Latinx literatures.
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