Grieving : dispatches from a wounded country / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker.
"Translated into English by Sarah Booker, GRIEVING is Cristina Rivera Garza's collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border. Drawing together horror theory and historical analysis, Rivera Garza outl...
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| Other title: | Works. Selections. English |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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New York, NY :
Feminist Press, City University of New York,
2020.
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| Edition: | First Feminist Press edition. |
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| Summary: | "Translated into English by Sarah Booker, GRIEVING is Cristina Rivera Garza's collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border. Drawing together horror theory and historical analysis, Rivera Garza outlines how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug trafficking-culminating in the misnamed "war on drugs"-has shaped her country. Working from and against this political context, Rivera Garza posits that collective grief and writing is a mode of seeking social justice"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 182 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781936932948 1936932946 |