Documenting the undocumented [electronic resource] :latino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper / Marta Caminero-Santangelo.
By: Caminero-Santangelo, Marta [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813055824; 0813055822.Subject(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 | Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.) | Mexican-American Border RegionGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 810.9/868073 Online resources: Full text available: 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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