This essay demonstrates the connection between the processes of “ruination” (a term I borrow from Ann Stoler to explain deliberate abandonment and destruction in contemporary urban spaces) and the surveillance/control of bodies (particularly everyday forms of control by nonstate actors) and argues that the necropolitical strategies of ruination and control are important lenses through which to read Latinx urban fiction (I use “Latinx,” now an increasingly common term in popular media and academic and activist contexts that is inclusive of gender identities beyond the binary Latina/o. I use “Latina” and “Latino” when the gender needs to be specified as female or male). Focusing on José Rivera’s 1992 play Marisol and Ernesto Quiñonez’s (2004) novel Chango’s Fire, I show how imaginative writing reveals the everyday workings and psychic effects of urban necropolitics. Through particular narrative strategies and aesthetic choices, as well as exploration of the effects of ruination and control on Latinx lives and identities, Rivera and Quiñonez’s works contribute to our understanding of urban processes, as well as serving as a reclamation of place, by turning on their heads ideas about racialized space as worthless, “dead,” or ripe for conquest.

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纽约市的写作毁灭与控制：埃内斯托·奎诺内斯的《昌戈之火》和何塞·里维拉的《马里索尔》

这篇文章展示了“破坏”过程（我从安·斯托勒那里借用一个术语来解释当代城市空间中的故意遗弃和破坏）与身体的监视/控制（特别是非国家行为者的日常控制形式）之间的联系，并论证了毁灭和控制的亡灵政治策略是阅读拉丁城市小说的重要镜头（我使用“拉丁”，现在流行媒体、学术和激进主义背景中越来越普遍的术语，包括超越二元拉丁/o . 当需要将性别指定为女性或男性时，我使用“拉丁语”和“拉丁语”）。专注于 José Rivera 1992 年的戏剧 Marisol 和 Ernesto Quiñonez (2004) 的小说 Chango's Fire，我展示了富有想象力的写作是如何揭示城市亡灵政治的日常运作和心理影响的。通过特定的叙事策略和审美选择，以及对毁灭和控制对拉丁裔生活和身份的影响的探索，里维拉和奎尼奥内斯的作品有助于我们理解城市进程，并通过开启他们的头脑认为种族化的空间毫无价值，“死了”，或者征服的时机已经成熟。