Abstract: This article analyses the new challenges faced by US Latinx literatura in the Trump era by focusing on the complex ways in which different representations of the borderlands in US Latinx literature negotiate and are placed into a dialogue with exclusionary understandings of nationhood. In order to carry out this task, I will explore the dialectics between Latinx representations of transnational circuits in the borderlands and anti-immigration discourses. My contention is that in the midst of the current nationalist wave, Latinx literatura counterweighs Trump?s radicalism, offering alternative approaches to the border region and its people. More specifically, I will centre on one particular work, Elizondo Griest?s All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the US Borderlands (2017), and the ways in which this book interrogates and expands our knowledge of the borderlands.

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