Abrazando Nopales-Prickly Embrace
Undocumented Women's Life Stories/Poetic Performance Narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408918 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Espinosa-Dulanto (0000-0003-4928-5337, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 177-180 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708617737096 |
| OpenAlex | W2765667324 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 5 |
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
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |