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Grieving : dispatches from a wounded country
- Title
- Grieving : dispatches from a wounded country / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker.
- Author
- Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Feminist Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-495 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Booker, Sarah
- Description
- vii, 182 pages; 12 cm
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Translations.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Introduction: Taking shelter; horror, the state, and social suffering in twenty-first-century Mexico -- The sufferers. The claimant -- The visceraless state -- War and imagination -- On Diary of pain by María Luisa Puga -- Tragic agency -- I won't let anyone say those are the best years of your life -- What countries are these, Agripina? On 2501 migrants by Alejandro Santiago -- Nonfiction -- Elvira Arellano and that which blood, tradition, and community unite -- What country is this, Agripina? -- Cacaluta -- Desiccated mermaids -- The morning after -- On our toes: women against the Mexican femicide machine -- Under the narco sky. Horrorism -- The war we lost -- The neo-camelias -- The longest Sunday -- A network of holes -- Under the glare with Guillermo Fernández -- Under the narco sky -- Writing as we grieve, grieving as we write. Mourning -- Writing in migration : a desedimentation with Lina Meruane -- Writing against war -- The end of women's silence -- Touching is a verb : the hands of the pandemic and its inescapable questions -- Keep writing.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-495
- ISBN
- 9781936932931
- 1936932938
- 9781936932948 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020026940
- OCLC
- 1158507746
- Author
- Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- author.
- Title
- Grieving : dispatches from a wounded country / Cristina Rivera Garza ; translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Feminist Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First Feminist Press edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Booker, Sarah, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rivera Garza, Cristina, 1964- Grieving. First Feminist Press edition New York, NY : Feminist Press, 2020 9781936932948 (DLC) 2020026941
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-495