Following the publication and controversy surrounding American Dirt (2020) by Jeanine Cummins, this essay discusses the process by which American Dirt'™s bestseller status was manufactured in correlation with Flatiron☳ aim to capitalize on a growing Latinx market and on the political visibility of the questions of immigration. It argues that the misrepresentation and commodification of Mexico in the book's form and construction is a central feature of its marketability and success and studies the ways in which the book☳ errors align themselves with representations in Hollywood cinema and television that forward a negative view of Mexico aligned with anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican politics. Finally, the essay discusses the coexistence of these two factors with a growing infrastructure of Hispanophone and translated Latin American literature that competes with, and seeks to challenge, the existence of books like American Dirt.

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商品化墨西哥：论美国的污垢和制造畅销书的文化政治

继珍妮·康明斯 (Jeanine Cummins) 发表《美国污垢》(2020) 并引发争议之后，本文讨论了《美国污垢》的畅销书地位与 Flatiron☳ 相关的制造过程，旨在利用不断增长的拉丁裔市场和移民问题的政治知名度。它认为这本书的形式和结构对墨西哥的歪曲和商品化是其适销性和成功的一个核心特征，并研究了这本书☳错误与好莱坞电影和电视中对墨西哥的负面看法的表述方式相一致的方式与反移民和反墨西哥政治保持一致。最后，