{"product_id":"falling-to-my-death-vertical-rhetorics-in-neoliberal-mexico-hardcover","title":"Falling to My Death: Vertical Rhetorics in Neoliberal Mexico - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJosé Ángel Maldonado\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\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\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\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\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJosé\u003cbr\u003eÁngel Maldonado is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South\u003cbr\u003eFlorida. He specializes in Rhetorical Theory, Critical and Cultural Studies, \u003cbr\u003eFilm and Television Criticism, Mexican Culture, Gender Studies, Globalization, \u003cbr\u003eand Indigeneity. He received his PhD from the University of Utah. His research\u003cbr\u003edeconstructs discourses emerging in Latin America that normalize violent\u003cbr\u003econditions so that we may anticipate and prevent violence of various types. His\u003cbr\u003ework appears in \u003ci\u003eRhetoric \u0026amp; Public Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e and Critical\/Cultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Communication Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eJavnost-The Public: Journal of the European\u003cbr\u003eInstitute for Communication and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 214\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53008366698803,"sku":"9781638042020","price":109.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/IzfbYmZ4pe9781638042020.webp?v=1769673499","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/falling-to-my-death-vertical-rhetorics-in-neoliberal-mexico-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}