Crossing Waters : Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art / Marisel C. Moreno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreno, Marisel C., 1973- author.

Series:

Latinx (Series)

Latinx: the Future Is Now Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illegal immigration in literature.

Emigration and immigration in art.

Caribbean literature (Spanish)--Themes, motives.

Caribbean literature (Spanish).

Sociology.

Spanish American literature--Themes, motives.

Spanish American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, [2022]

Summary:

Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing Waters relates a journey that remains silenced and largely unknown. Analyzing works by novelists, short-story writers, poets, and visual artists replete with references to drowning and echoes of the Middle Passage, Marisel Moreno shines a spotlight on the plight that these migrants face. In some cases, Puerto Rico takes on a new role as a stepping-stone to the continental United States and the society migrants will join there. Meanwhile the land border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the only terrestrial border in the Hispanophone Caribbean, emerges as a complex space within this cartography of borders. And while the Border Patrol occupies US headlines, the Coast Guard occupies the nightmares of refugees. An untold story filled with beauty, possibility, and sorrow, Crossing Waters encourages us to rethink the geography and experience of undocumented migration and the role that the Caribbean archipelago plays as a border zone.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Rethinking the Borders of the Caribbean Archipelago

Chapter 2. Puerto Rico: Border and Bridge to the Continental United States

Chapter 3. Dominican Crossings: Displacements across Sea and Land

Chapter 4. Cubans at Sea: The Balsero Crisis in Literature and Art

Epilogue

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781477325612

1477325611

OCLC:

1314615796