This analysis uncovers the role of narrative in identifying migrant dead, highlighting how photography and journalism resist border policies.
On the U.S.-Mexico border, thousands of migrant dead go unidentified, unnamed. Situating works of twenty-first-century photography, journalism, documentary, and creative nonfiction at the intersection of necrology and elegy, I argue that these narrative searches for names both illuminate and resist the necropolitical border policies designed to anonymize and erase.
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