Defacing the Monument
Briante, Susan
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. DEFACING THE MONUMENT opens with the narration of an Operation Streamline hearing, a proceeding during which as many as 70 undocumented migrants are criminally prosecuted and sentenced en masse to serve jail time prior to deportation. It's an attempt to bear witness to what happens to those who do not hold the correct documents as a way to show texts always bear the marks of power.Documentary poetics offers a tradi...
