{"product_id":"falling-to-my-death-vertical-rhetorics-in-neoliberal-mexico-9781638042020","title":"Falling to My Death: Vertical Rhetorics in Neoliberal Mexico","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn\u003cbr\u003ea book that combines memoir and cultural criticism of visual media, public\u003cbr\u003erhetoric, and memory texts, José Ángel Maldonado reflects on the subjectivities\u003cbr\u003ehe embodies--mestizo, epileptic, and exile--while engaging in a critique of the\u003cbr\u003evarious popular texts he encounters while travelling through Mexico after\u003cbr\u003eliving in the United States as an undocumented immigrant. Using the suffix -\u003ci\u003ecide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(from the Latin \u003ci\u003ecaedere\u003c\/i\u003e, \"to fall,\" and \"to die\") as a guide for a\u003cbr\u003ediscussion of modes of dying in contemporary Mexico, he creates a constellation\u003cbr\u003eof terms like suicide, magnicide, genocide, and feminicide, as metaphors for\u003cbr\u003efalling that define quotidian life in Mexico. This exercise uncloaks what he\u003cbr\u003eterms the \"rhetorics of verticality\" that many deploy when navigating dangerous\u003cbr\u003esituations throughout violent, militarized Mexico. Trained as a cultural critic\u003cbr\u003ewho uses rhetorical theory to deconstruct discourse, he combines a confessional\u003cbr\u003estyle with an accessible academic voice to demonstrate how everyday texts\u003cbr\u003einform and shape reality in order to anticipate, rather than react to, the\u003cbr\u003einevitability of violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clemson University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781638042020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Jos\u0026#195;\u0026#169; \u0026#195;\u0026#129;ngel Maldonado","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52197288313013,"sku":"9781638042020","price":80.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2401c569-2f14-4542-a49f-c9a721d46bd9.jpg?v=1769623004","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/falling-to-my-death-vertical-rhetorics-in-neoliberal-mexico-9781638042020","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}