MARC Record from Library of Congress

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050 00 $aPS153.H56$bC35 2016
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100 1 $aCaminero-Santangelo, Marta,$d1966-$eauthor.
245 10 $aDocumenting the undocumented :$blatino/a narratives and social justice in the era of Operation Gatekeeper /$cMarta Caminero-Santangelo.
263 $a1605
264 1 $aGainesville :$bUniversity Press of Florida,$c[2016]
264 0 $c©2016.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aNarrating 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.
520 $aLooking 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHispanic American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aImmigrants' writings, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aIllegal aliens$xGovernment policy$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSocial justice in literature.
610 20 $aOperation Gatekeeper (U.S.)
651 0 $aMexican-American Border Region.
650 0 $aBorder patrols$zMexican-American Border Region.