Trans-Atlantic Time in the Borderlands: Racialized Gender and Becoming in the Work of Alan Pelaez Lopez.
Alan Pelaez Lopez' Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien (2020) animates multiple temporalities to expose the intertwined histories that converge at the contemporary US-Mexico border. The text dismantles common linear progress accounts of both US immigration and gender transition and de...
| Publicado en: | College Literature Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 603 - 636 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Fall2025
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