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Luiselli Valeria <1983-> |
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Titolo |
Tell me how it ends : an essay in 40 questions / / Valeria Luiselli |
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Minneapolis, [Minnesota] : , : Coffee House Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 125 pages) |
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LCO010000SOC007000POL003000POL033000 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Immigrant children - Legal status, laws, etc |
Immigrant children - United States - Social conditions |
Immigration enforcement - United States |
Deportation - Social aspects - United States |
Emigration and immigration in literature |
Immigrants - United States - Social conditions |
Hispanic American children - Social conditions |
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United States Emigration and immigration Government policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction -- Border -- Court -- Home -- Community -- Coda (Eight brief postscripta). |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US. |
"Structured around the forty questions Luiselli translates and asks undocumented Latin-American children facing deportation, Tell Me How It Ends (an expansion of her 2016 Freeman's essay of the same name) humanizes these young migrants and highlights the contradiction of the idea of America as a fiction for immigrants with the reality of racism and fear--both here and back home"-- |
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