The documented child : migration, personhood, and citizenship in twenty-first-century U.S. Latinx children's literature / Maya Socolovsky.

Author/creator Socolovsky, Maya, 1973- author.
Format Book
PublicationTucson : University of Arizona Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Description285 pages ; 23 cm
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Variant title Migration, personhood, and citizenship in 21st-century U.S. Latinx children's literature
Contents Introduction: Documenting Latinx children -- 1. Material literacies: migration and border crossings in Pat Mora's Tomás and the Library Lady, Luis J. Rodriguez's América Is Her Name, and Amada Irma Pérez's My Diary from Here to There -- 2. "What should we American farmers be without the distinct possession of that soil?" Homesteading and the cultivation of citizenship in Cynthia Defelice's Under the Same Sky and Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender -- 3. Narratives of shame and healing: tourism, consumerism and solidarity in Malin Alegría's Sofi Mendoza's Guide to Getting Lost in Mexico -- 4. Borderland ethics, migrant personhood and the critique of state sovereignty in Jairo Buitrago's Two White Rabbits and José Manuel Matéo's Migrant: The Journey of a Mexican Worker -- 5. Disappearance, documentation and sovereignty in Alexandra Diaz's The Only Road and The Crossroads -- 6. The dreamer brand: immigration, storytelling and commodification in Alberto Ledesma's Diary of a Reluctant Dreamer: Undocumented Vignettes from a Pre-American Life and Maria Andreu's The Secret Life of Empty -- Conclusion.
Abstract "The Documented Child demonstrates how the portrayal of Latinx children has dramatically shifted, and it discusses how these shifts map onto broader changes in immigration policy and discourse in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Socolovsky, Maya, 1973- Documented child Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2025 9780816554027
LCCN 2024016864
ISBN9780816554003
ISBN9780816554010 hardcover
ISBN0816554013 hardcover
ISBN0816554005 paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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