Grieving, Cristina Rivera Garza
Grieving, Cristina Rivera Garza
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Grieving
Dispatches from a Wounded Country

Author: Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker (Translator)

Narrator: Marisa Blake

Unabridged: 5 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/18/2021


Synopsis

This hybrid collection of short crnicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border draws together literary theory and historical analysis to outline how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug traffickingculminating in the misnamed war on drugshas shaped Mexico. 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. As 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.

About Cristina Rivera Garza

Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning author, translator, and critic. Her books, originally written in Spanish, have been translated into multiple languages. She has won the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature, the Anna Seghers-Preis, and the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. In 2020, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Grant. She received her PhD in 2012 in Latin American history from the University of Houston, where she teaches.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Joseph

The fact that it took me nearly four months to make my way through this book is not a comment on its quality. This collection of essays is, by turns, poetic, tragic, brutal, angry, and hopeful. It is always an engaging read, rarely comfortable, frequently horrifying. It is at times a catalogue of pa......more

Goodreads review by Lupita

GRIEVING Dispatches from a Wounded Country by Cristina River Garza is an insight into what US mainstream media often exploits without targeting the actual issues surrounding the systemic violence in Mexico. How it’s influenced and manipulated and the ways in which the citizens of Mexico grieve to mo......more