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Author:

Caminero-Santangelo, Marta, 1966- author.

Title:

Documenting the undocumented : latino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper / Marta Caminero-Santangelo.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

x, 296 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism.
Illegal aliens--Government policy--United States.
Social justice in literature.
Border patrols--Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexican-American Border Region.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0813062594
9780813062594

OCLC:

(OCoLC)913057818

LCCN:

2015047964

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)