Documenting the Undocumented
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Alicia Alarcon
Ana Castillo
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Cristina Garcia
Documenting the Undocumented
DREAM act
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ethics
ethnicity
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Immigration
Julia Alvarez
Junot Diaz
Latin America
latinidad
Latinoa
literature
Luis Alberto Urrea
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
nationalism
networks
Operation Gatekeeper
Peter Orner
policy
Ramon "Tianguis" Perez
Reyna Grande
Ruben Martinez
Sonia Nazario
testimonial fiction
testimonio
transnational
trauma
unauthorized
Undocumented
United States
William Perez
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- ISBN 9780813062594
- Weight: 553g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jun 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Looking at the work of Latino/a authors who are U.S. citizens, including Junot Diaz, Cristina Garcia, and Julia Alvarez, Marta Caminero- Santangelo examines how writers are increasingly expressing their solidarity with undocumented immigrants. She similarly foregrounds the narratives of the undocumented themselves to show how they are emerging in the public sphere.
In this multifaceted issue, the voices are myriad: they challenge common interpretations of “illegal” immigration, explore the inevitable traumas and ethical dilemmas, protest their own silencing in immigration debates, and even capitalize on the topic for the commercial market. This growing body of literature is critical to understanding not only the Latino/a immigrant experience, but also alternative visions of nation and belonging.
In this multifaceted issue, the voices are myriad: they challenge common interpretations of “illegal” immigration, explore the inevitable traumas and ethical dilemmas, protest their own silencing in immigration debates, and even capitalize on the topic for the commercial market. This growing body of literature is critical to understanding not only the Latino/a immigrant experience, but also alternative visions of nation and belonging.
Marta Caminero-Santangelo, professor of English at the University of Kansas, USA, is the author of On Latinidad: US Latino Literature and the Construction of Ethnicity and The Madwoman Can’t Speak: Or Why Insanity is Not Subversive.
