Grieving: Dispatches From A Wounded Country

by Cristina Rivera Garza

2021-02-01 16:54:48

Grieving is Cristina Rivera Garza''s hybrid collection of short cronicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico. Drawing together horror theory and historical analysis, she outlines how neoliberalism, corruption... Read more
Grieving is Cristina Rivera Garza''s hybrid collection of short cronicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico. Drawing together horror theory and historical analysis, she 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 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 language-the humblest and most powerful force available to us-we 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."" Less

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ISBN9781936932931
Cristina Rivera Garza is the award-winning author of The Taiga Syndrome and The Iliac Crest, among many other books. Her memoir Liliana’s Invincible Summer won the Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist ...

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