Caminero-Santangelo, Marta, 1966-

Documenting the undocumented latino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper / [electronic resource] : Marta Caminero-Santangelo. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Narrating the non-nation: literary journalism and "illegal" border crossings -- The lost ones: post-gatekeeper border fictions and the construction of cultural trauma -- The Caribbean difference: imagining trans-status communities -- Selling the undocumented: life narratives of unauthorized immigrants -- Unauthorized plots: life writing, transnationalism, and the possibilities of agency -- Undocumented testimony: American dreamers.

Looking at fiction and nonfiction by citizen journalists and undocumented writers, Caminero-Santangelo finds that latino/a writers increasingly express a sense of solidarity with undocumented immigrants. She also notes, however, that the literary and narrative response is far from heterogeneous.

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Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)


Border patrols--Mexican-American Border Region.
Social justice in literature.
Illegal aliens--Government policy--United States.
Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.
American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.


Mexican-American Border Region.


Electronic books.

PS153.H56 / C35 2016

810.9/868073