Description: How legal and cultural texts coalesce in Mexico's violent twenty-first century
Review Quotes: "This book is very ambitious in scope. From a novel (Volpi's Una novela criminal) to documentaries, children's rights, and migration, Janzen traces a country in struggle to find a symbolic meaning after neoliberalism--what we could call post-sovereignty. It is a very sharp reading of reality through cultural materialities."
--Pedro Ángel Palou García, author of Mestizo Failure(s): Race, Film, and Literature in Twentieth-Century Mexico