Cruzand Aguas: La MigraciónIndocumentadaen La Literatura y Las Artes Visuales Del Caribe hispanohablante y su diaspora (Editora Educación Eggente, 2025), translation of Marisel C. Moreno’s Cross-water: Hispanophon Caribbean and undocumented migration in Latino literature and art (University of Texas Press, 2022) is the most welcome and important contribution to the fields of Latin America and the Caribbean, visual arts, ethnicity, and interdisciplinary research. Translation by Beatriz Llenín Figueroa, Cruzandou Gauss… is a critical study of the artistic representation of undocumented migration in the Hispanophon Caribbean and the Diaspora. [Cover art features one of my favorite artists from the Dominican Republic, the late Tony Capellán.]
Description (Editora Educación Eggente): In this Spanish translation Cross-water: Undocumented migration in Spanish-speaking Caribbean and its diaspora literature and visual artsThe Otra Universidad series continues to contribute to the essential archives of anti-hegemon’s perspectives, knowledge and methods of artistic imagination and production, as well as the essential connection between Puerto Rico and the Caribbean region to which it belongs.
Furthermore, the book offers a novel and transformative dialogue between the art of language in various genres (essays, short stories, poetry, drama) and visual arts that address the urgent issues of maritime and “undocumented” migration (from a contemporary, capitalist, racist and colonial state perspective). The result is a regional affirmation of the extraordinary sustainability of the Caribbean people across our Afro despite merciless and continuous persecution by those in power.
Marisel Moreno She is a professor of Spanish at the University of Notre Dame, and she teaches us Latina/e/o/x literature. She is the author ofFamily Issues: Puerto Rican Female Writers on the Island and Mainland(University of Virginia Press, 2012) andCross-water: Hispanophon Caribbean and undocumented migration in Latino literature and art(Part of the Latinx: The Future is Now Series by University of Texas Press, July 2022).Gordon K. and the Civil Lewis Book AwardsAnd I received itISIS Duarte Book PrizeHonorable mention from the Haiti and Dominican Republic section of the Latin American Studies Association. She is the recipient of the Indiana Governor’s Service Learning Award (2011), the CD Excellence Education Award (2016), and the Rev. William A. Touhay, the CSC Social Justice Award (2019). Moreno’s educational and research interests focus on Afrolatinism and Latin Caribbean literature and cultural production. [. . .] She is co-created and co-organized with Thomas F. Anderson, a digital humanities project.I’m listening to Puerto Rico.She also co-curated with Anderson on the exhibit.Art in the Service of People: Posters and Books from Puerto Rico’s Community Education Division (Divedco)For the Snite Museum in Notre Dame (2012). [. . .]
Beatriz Llenín FigueroaAuthors, editors, translators, and apprentices in animals and live arts. She holds a PhD in Literature from Duke University. She is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Mayaguez (UPRM) in Puerto Rico. Her research interests include Caribbean literature and philosophy in the 20th and 21st centuries, Caribbean studies, maritime history, island and archipelago thinking, and critical theory. She is also interested in independent theatres and works as an editor for the Editora Educación Eggente. Her work revolves around Puerto Rico and the Caribbean archipelago, its ecosystems and embodiments, experimental theatre and performances. See the article on llenínfigueroa https://www.80grados.net/author/beatriz-llenin-figueroa/page/2/
Book description Translated by Ivette Romero. See original (in Spanish) https://librerialabentopr.com/products/cruzando-aguas-marisel-c-moreno
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