"Accidental Allegories" Meet "The Performative Documentary": Boystown, Señorita Extraviada, and the Border-Brothel→Maquiladora Paradigm.

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      The article focuses on the persistence of racialized and sexualized working woman from the Texas-Mexico border in visual culture. Contrasting prior configurations of Woman and work in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands with current discourses concerning women's work in the region, the author proposes a border-brothel-maquiladora paradigm which capitalizes on both Senorita Extraviada and her own overeaching ambivalences toward allegoria as a practice and process. The author has observed paradigm shift in conflations/hyphenations of Woman and Border.