Abrazando Nopales—Prickly Embrace: Undocumented Women’s Life Stories/Poetic Performance Narratives

Authors

Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-25-2017

Abstract

I chose poetic performance narratives to create a provocative piece offering a glimpse of the reality, tragedies, dreams, and hopes lived daily by more than 12 million people in the United States. These individuals are reported as unauthorized, undocumented immigrants by the U.S. Census Bureau. These specific stories were shared and collected ethnographically on the agricultural fields of the South East of the United States. My goal is to have “captured” readers to be seduced into the “uncomfortable” world of undocumented people and have the poems/performance narratives become not only representation of the events but, as Renato Rosaldo said, “the event itself.”

Comments

© 2017 SAGE Publications.

https://journals.sagepub.com/share/9WGBYD3BIUBWVRWPNMYH?target=10.1177/1532708617737096

Recommended Citation

Espinosa-Dulanto, M. (2018). Abrazando Nopales—Prickly Embrace: Undocumented Women’s Life Stories/Poetic Performance Narratives. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 18(3), 177-180. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708617737096

Publication Title

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

DOI

10.1177/1532708617737096