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Documenting the undocumented : latino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper
- Title
- Documenting the undocumented : latino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper / Marta Caminero-Santangelo.
- Author
- Caminero-Santangelo, Marta, 1966-
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- x, 296 pages; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Operation Gatekeeper (U.S.)
- American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism
- Immigrants' writings, American > History and criticism
- Social justice in literature
- Border patrols > Mexican-American Border Region
- Noncitizens > Government policy > United States
- Undocumented immigration > Government policy > United States
- Mexican-American Border Region
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-7223
- ISBN
- 9780813062594
- 0813062594
- LCCN
- 2015047964
- OCLC
- 913057818
- 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
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-7223