Documenting the Undocumented : Latino/a Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Caminero-Santangelo, Marta, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)
Social justice in literature.
Immigrants' writings, American.
Border patrols.
American literature > Hispanic American authors.
Noncitizens > Government policy.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale.
Immigration clandestine > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Police de la frontiere > Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Justice sociale dans la litterature.
Écrits d'immigrants americains > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine latino-americaine > Histoire et critique.
Illegal immigration > Government policy.
Illegal immigration > Government policy > United States.
Noncitizens > Government policy > United States.
Border patrols > Mexican-American Border Region.
Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism.
American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine.
Mexican-American Border Region.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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