Marisel C. Moreno’s Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Artwork— an modern examine of the creative representations of undocumented migration inside the Hispanophone Caribbean—shall be printed within the College of Texas Press sequence Latinx: The Future is Now in June 2022 [with cover art by Dominican artist Scherezade García.]
Description: Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin People invariably deal with 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 continues to be 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 circumstances, Puerto Rico takes on a brand new function 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 posh 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 function 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 creator of Household Issues: Puerto Rican Girls Authors on the Island and the Mainland.
For extra data, see utpress.utexas.edu/books/moreno-crossing-waters