On the Nature of the Border: Trash Thresholds in Luis Alberto Urrea’s By the Lake of Sleeping Children
In this essay, I undertake an analysis of Luis Alberto Urrea’s non-fiction book By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996), which portrays a community of trash pickers and orphans in Tijuana at a moment in which the effects of NAFTA and an increasingly militarized approach to policing the U.S.-Mexico b...
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| Language: | English |
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Latin American Research Commons
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Latin American Literary Review |
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| Online Access: | https://account.lalrp.net/index.php/lasa-j-lalr/article/view/230 |