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NTU DFLL Faculty Colloquium - Brown Bodies, White Boundaries: US Americanness in Borderland Horror （Anna Marini） |
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College of Liberal Arts--Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
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Ex-Position Talks
NTU DFLL Faculty Colloquium
臺大外文系學術演講
Title: Brown Bodies, White Boundaries: US Americanness in Borderland Horror
Speaker: Dr Anna Marini （Humboldt Research Fellow, JFKi Freie Universität Berlin）
Moderator: Dr Manuel Herrero-Puertas （National Taiwan University）
Time: 4:30 pm, April 29 （Wednesday）
Registration: https://forms.gle/PLCJTEDs2VrcFbHM8
Brown Bodies, White Boundaries: US Americanness in Borderland Horror
The US-Mexico borderland region has long represented a crucial element in the construction of US American identity, providing a literal and metaphorical boundary supporting exceptionalist, nationalist, and exclusionary notions of what is “truly” US American. The talk delves into horror representations of the borderlands broadly intended and how popular culture texts have served as reinforcement of Whiteness, fueling a perceived need for border enforcement and a profound sense of ethnoracial inadequacy. The use of horror is analyzed in its genre-defining features, but also as a metaphoric embodiment of the significance of the boundary—both as an entity looming over idealized notions of national intactness and a locus of real-life horrors haunting ethnoracialized subjects. By framing the context and then examining both mainstream and Latinx texts, the differences in nuance and perspective are highlighted—showing how the construct of the Good Migrant lies at the core of borderland imaginings and the configuration of US Americanness.
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