Scales of CaptivityIn Scales of Captivity, Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive or cast off child in Latinx and Chicanx literature and art between chattel slaverys final years and the mass deportations of the twenty first century. She shows how Latinx expressive practices expose how every rescaling of economic and military power requires new modalities of capture, new ways to bracket and hedge life. Through readings of novels by Helena Mara Viramontes, Oscar