From the Dark Shores of Puerto Rico: Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro´s Portrayal of the Society´s Margins in Los documentados

• Autores: Emmanuel Harris II
• Localización: Tinkuy: Boletín de investigación y debate, ISSN-e 1913-0481, Nº. 18, 2012, págs. 108-118
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This papers considers the political and social content of Arroyo Pizarro´s fiction by analyzing how race, class, gender and history become intertwined in Los documentados, an epistolary novel that takes place in a Puerto Rican coastal town and is told from the perspective of a deaf nine-year-old girl. She testifies, legitimizes, and transcribes the events of the undocumented immigrants in their desperate attempts to reach the island of Puerto Rico.