Grieving (eBook)

Dispatches from a Wounded Country

Cristina Rivera Garza (Autor)

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2020
192 Seiten
The Feminist Press at CUNY (Verlag)
978-1-936932-94-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics' Circle Award for CriticismBy one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the political experience of collective pain.Grieving is a hybrid collection of short crnicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border. Drawing together literary theory and historical analysis, she outlines how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug traffickingculminating in the misnamed ';war on drugs'has shaped her country. Working from and against this political context, Cristina Rivera Garza posits that collective grief is an act of resistance against state violence, and that writing is a powerful mode of seeking social justice and embodying resilience.She states: ';As we write, as we work with languagethe humblest and most powerful force available to uswe activate the potential of words, phrases, sentences. Writing as we grieve, grieving as we write: a practice able to create refuge from the open. Writing with others. Grieving like someone who takes refuge from the open. Grieving, which is always a radically different mode of writing.'';A lucid, poignant collection of essays and poetry. . . . deeply hopeful, ultimately love letters to writing itself, and to the power of language to overcome the silence that impunity imposes.' New York Times Book Review "e;For all the losses tallied, the pieces are imbued with optimism and an activist's passion for reshaping the world."e; The New Yorker

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Übersetzer: Sarah Booker
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: autofiction • autotheory • books by chicana writers • Chicana Literature • collective grief • Corruption • drug cartels • drug trafficking • drug violence • Drug War • Essays • femicide • feminist activism • gendered violence • Grief • hispanic women writers • Horror Theory • Journalism • Latin American History • Latin American literature • Literary Theory • Loss • mexican american literature • mexican history • mexican women • Mexico • migration narratives • Mourning • Narcos • patriarchal violence • personal essay • present-day Mexico • Social Justice • spanish literature authors • spanish translation • State Violence • systemic violence • US-Mexican border • US-Mexico border • Violence • War on Drugs
• ISBN-10: 1-936932-94-6 / 1936932946
• ISBN-13: 978-1-936932-94-8 / 9781936932948