The Documented Child: Migration, Personhood, and Citizenship in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Latinx Children's Literature

by Maya Socolovsky

Immigrationis at once a personal, immediate, and urgent issue that plays a central role in the United States' perception of itself. In The Documented Child, scholar Maya Socolovsky demonstrates how the portrayal of Latinx children has shifted over the first two decades of the twenty-first century in literary texts aimed at children and young adults and looks at how these shifts map onto broader changes in immigration policy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816554013
• ISBN13: 9780816554010
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.