Scenery: A Lyric

by Jos� Felipe Alvergue and jose felipe alvergue

Book Overview

In scenery, lyric's public voice and memoir's personal reconciliations confront the archives of America's racial and legal histories, resulting in a genre-bending exploration of what it means to exist as oneself for an Other. The author, a Salvadorean immigrant and parent, reflects on the status of personhood in America between racial supremacy and racial disavowal, thinking through his own structural role as a naturalized citizen, and naturalization's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823288676
• ISBN13: 9780823288670
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.1"