TY - BOOK ID - 137420527 TI - Crossing waters : undocumented migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx literature and art PY - 2022 SN - 1477325611 9781477325612 9781477325599 PB - Austin : University of Texas Press DB - UniCat KW - Art, Caribbean KW - Art, Latin American KW - Caribbean literature (Spanish) KW - Emigration and immigration in art. KW - Illegal immigration in literature. KW - Spanish American literature KW - Themes, motives. KW - undocumented Americans, undocumented, undocumented migrants, migration, Central America, Central Americans, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Hispanic Caribbean, cultural studies. KW - Emigration and immigration in art KW - Illegal immigration in literature KW - Themes, motives UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137420527 AB - 2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean Debates over the undocumented migration of Latin Americans invariably focus on the southern US border, but most migrants never cross that arbitrary line. Instead, many travel, via water, among the Caribbean islands. The first study to examine literary and artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean, Crossing Waters relates a journey that remains silenced and largely unknown. Analyzing works by novelists, short-story writers, poets, and visual artists replete with references to drowning and echoes of the Middle Passage, Marisel Moreno shines a spotlight on the plight that these migrants face. In some cases, Puerto Rico takes on a new role as a stepping-stone to the continental United States and the society migrants will join there. Meanwhile the land border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the only terrestrial border in the Hispanophone Caribbean, emerges as a complex space within this cartography of borders. And while the Border Patrol occupies US headlines, the Coast Guard occupies the nightmares of refugees. An untold story filled with beauty, possibility, and sorrow, Crossing Waters encourages us to rethink the geography and experience of undocumented migration and the role that the Caribbean archipelago plays as a border zone. ER -