{"product_id":"crossing-waters-marisel-c-moreno-9781477325599","title":"Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature \u0026 Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 Honorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize, Haiti\/ Dominican Republic section (LASA) \u003cbr\u003e 2023 Winner, Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An innovative study of the artistic representations of undocumented migration within the Hispanophone Caribbean \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eCrossing Waters\u003c\/i\u003e relates a journey that remains silenced and largely unknown. \u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e An untold story filled with beauty, possibility, and sorrow, \u003ci\u003eCrossing Waters\u003c\/i\u003e encourages us to rethink the geography and experience of undocumented migration and the role that the Caribbean archipelago plays as a border zone. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marisel C. Moreno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147732559X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477325599\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Marisel C. Moreno","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44056482513151,"sku":"9781477325599","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4dbb4c6b-5635-4ef3-9937-84b1ad9c26f2.jpg?v=1685041557","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/crossing-waters-marisel-c-moreno-9781477325599","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}