Walk the Barrio: The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature

by Cristina Rodríguez

Book Overview

Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place. Building on this self-evident premise, Walk the Barrio adds the less obvious claim that to write about place you must experience place. Thus, in this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks neighborhood streets, talks to immigrants, interviews authors, and puts herself physically in the spaces that she seeks to understand.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813948061
• ISBN13: 9780813948065
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher