Documenting the undocumented : latino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper

• Tác giả: Marta Caminero-Santangelo
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0813062594
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 810.9868073 American literature in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2016
• Mô tả vật lý: x, 296 pages ; , 24 c
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 153592
• Chủ đề: 1. American literature--Hispanic American authors; 2. Border patrols--Mexican-American Border Region; 3. Illegal aliens--Government policy--United States; 4. Immigrants' writings, American--History and criticism; 5. Social justice in literature

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284) and index

Tóm tắt

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