Literary Autopsy: 053 Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Internal Dissection
Whether Hardy's subtitle — A Pure Woman — is the novel's argument or its most precise irony.
Literary Autopsy: 053 Tess of the d'Urbervilles — Internal Dissection
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The Full Account: 171 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Aftermath
The destination episode of an eight-link Retroplot tracing 175 years of specific, traceable decisions from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 to the present-day U.S. southern border — examining the enforcement apparatus, the asylum system, the political economy, and the question of what...
The Full Account: 170 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events
U.S. foreign policy interventions in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras from the 1950s through the 1990s and the downstream migration consequences — the deportation circuit, the emergence of the maras, and the Northern Triangle asylum-seeking migration arriving at a border system designed...
The Full Account: 169 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events
The maquiladora economy and the geography of movement — how the Border Industrialization Program of 1965 transformed the U.S.–Mexico border from a sparsely populated frontier into a densely urbanized industrial corridor, positioning millions of workers at the threshold of the United States...
The Full Account: 168 Retroplot: The U.S. Southern Border Crisis — Events
NAFTA and Mexican agricultural displacement — how the elimination of corn tariffs displaced two million subsistence farmers and transformed migration from circular seasonal labor into permanent family settlement