Parcels : Memories of Salvadoran Migration /
In light of new proposals to control undocumented migrants in the United States, Parcels prioritizes rural Salvadoran remembering in an effort to combat the collective amnesia that supports the logic of these historically myopic strategies. Mike Anastario investigates the social memories of individu...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2019]
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Colección: | Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Part I: Diasporic Remembering
- 1. Es Barata y Es Cara: Couriers and Parcels in Transnational Space
- 2. A Sequence of Undocumented Migrant Memories
- 3. Diasporic Intimacy and Nostos Imaginaries
- 4. We Do Not Have to Learn to Be What We Are Not: Memory and Imagination in the Rural Diaspora
- Part II: The U.S. Fugue State
- 5. Silence and Systematic Forgetting
- 6. Fields of Violence
- 7. Deferments of Voice, Myopic Reflections
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Research Methods
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR