Marisel C. Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Artwork— an revolutionary examine of the creative representations of undocumented migration inside the Hispanophone Caribbean Press (with cowl artwork by Dominican artist Scherezade García)—has been revealed within the College of Texas. [The author reminds readers that you can use the code UTXLSA to get a 30% discount when you order the book before July 31.]
Description: Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin People invariably concentrate on the southern US border, however most migrants by no means cross that arbitrary line. As an alternative, many journey, through water, among the many Caribbean islands. The primary examine to look at literary and creative representations of undocumented migration inside the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing Waters relates a journey that is still silenced and largely unknown.
Analyzing works by novelists, short-story writers, poets, and visible artists, replete with references to drowning and echoes of the Center Passage, Marisel Moreno shines a highlight on the plight that these migrants face. In some instances, Puerto Rico takes on a brand new position as a steppingstone to the continental United States and the society migrants will be part of there. In the meantime the land border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the one terrestrial border within the Hispanophone Caribbean, emerges as a fancy house inside this cartography of borders. And whereas the Border Patrol occupies US headlines, the Coast Guard occupies the nightmares of refugees.
An untold story crammed with magnificence, chance, and sorrow, Crossing Waters encourages us to rethink the geography and expertise of undocumented migration and the position that the Caribbean archipelago performs as a border zone.
Marisel C. Moreno is the Rev. John A. O’Brien Affiliate Professor within the Division of Romance Languages and Literatures on the College of Notre Dame. She is the writer of Household Issues: Puerto Rican Ladies Authors on the Island and the Mainland.
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