All the Agents and Saints (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Trade paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
312
Utgivningsdatum
2020-02-01
Upplaga
20002
Förlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Dimensioner
234 x 155 x 20 mm
Vikt
454 g
ISBN
9781469659244

All the Agents and Saints

Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands

av Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Stephanie Elizondo Griest
Häftad,  Engelska, 2020-02-01
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After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home-only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation's foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way. The frequency of these tragedies seemed like a terrible coincidence until Elizondo Griest moved to the New York-Canada borderlands. Once she began to meet Mohawks from the Akwesasne Nation, she recognized striking parallels to life on the southern border. Having lost their land through devious treaties, their mother tongues at English-only schools, and their traditional occupations through capitalist ventures, Tejanos and Mohawks alike struggle under the legacy of colonialism. Toxic industries surround their neighborhoods, while the U.S. Border Patrol militarizes them. Combating these forces are legions of artists and activists devoted to preserving their indigenous cultures. Complex belief systems, meanwhile, conjure miracles. In All the Agents and Saints, Elizondo Griest weaves seven years of stories into a meditation on the existential impact of international borderlines by illuminating the spaces in between and the people who live there. This edition features a new preface by the author.
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Stephanie Elizondo Griest is author of the award-winning memoirs Around the Bloc and Mexican Enough and associate professor of creative nonfiction at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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