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Documenting the undocumented : latino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper / Marta Caminero-Santangelo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caminero-Santangelo, Marta, 1966- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Social justice in literature.
- Border patrols--Mexican-American Border Region.
- Border patrols.
- Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Immigrants' writings, American.
- Noncitizens--Government policy--United States.
- Noncitizens.
- Illegal immigration.
- Mexican-American Border Region.
- Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 296 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-6336-1
- OCLC:
- 971049534
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