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Entry without Inspection - A Writer's Life in El Norte (Paperback)
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Entry without Inspection - A Writer's Life in El Norte (Paperback)
Series: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series
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Cecile Pineda-award-winning novelist, memoirist, theater director,
performer, activist-felt rootlessness throughout much of her life.
Her father was an undocumented Mexican immigrant; her mother a
French-speaking immigrant from Switzerland. Pineda, born in New
York City, felt culturally disconnected from both of her parents,
while also ill at ease in U.S. culture. In her life, we see the
strange intersection of immigrant politics, troubles with ethnic
identity, and the instability of family ties. In Entry without
Introspection, Pineda brings it all together, reconciling her past
(much of which she had to piece together from vague memories and
parental clues) while tracing how she formed her own identity
through prose and theater in the absence of known roots. But as
Pineda discovers, her life story doesn't belong solely to her but
is interwoven with those of her families, whether biological or
chosen, and of the world around her. Because of this, Pineda's
memoir features parallel stories, that of her life running
alongside and being informed by those of other immigrants. Pineda
traces her story while also documenting the work of the first
whistleblower to reveal an immigrant death in detention, in 2009,
with the storylines converging to reveal the lasting effects of
U.S. immigration policy. She explores the ripple effect of these
policies over generations, revealing the shocking truths of
marginalization and deportation. Pineda exposes both the cultural
losses and the traumatic aftereffects of misguided U.S. immigration
policy. Entry without Inspection is thus a truly American story in
all its historical and emotional complexity, one in which personal
ethics and political commentary are necessarily and inextricably
interwoven.
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