Grieving
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- Grieving will appeal to readers wanting to better understand the conflicts and violence in contemporary Mexico, a country that looms large for many US Americans but in vague detail. The subject matter of narco/government violence is clearly of great interest to US readers (the television show Narcos, for example) but Cristina Rivera Garza takes a completely different approach to the topic. Rather than examining the causes of violence, she explores the ways it affects the country and offers a mode of resistance in face of suffering.
- The book mixes theory and personal essay. This style of hybrid writing only continues to increase in popularity (Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts or Andrea Long Chu's Females), and offers readers a departure from typically journalistic or sensationalized accounts of the political subject matter. Ultimately, the book calls for resistance by using of public grief to push back on the status quo of violence, both calling attention to the political issues and privileging a politics of care.
- Cristina Rivera Garza is a writer in translation, but is also US-based and has a fast-growing US readership. She has published two English-language books (The Iliac Crest and The Taiga Syndrome) in the last two years and is extremely active in literary and academic sphere. She will also be publishing two other books from university presses in fall 2020, alongside Grieving.
- The book mixes theory and personal essay. This style of hybrid writing only continues to increase in popularity (Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts or Andrea Long Chu's Females), and offers readers a departure from typically journalistic or sensationalized accounts of the political subject matter. Ultimately, the book calls for resistance by using of public grief to push back on the status quo of violence, both calling attention to the political issues and privileging a politics of care.
- Cristina Rivera Garza is a writer in translation, but is also US-based and has a fast-growing US readership. She has published two English-language books (The Iliac Crest and The Taiga Syndrome) in the last two years and is extremely active in literary and academic sphere. She will also be publishing two other books from university presses in fall 2020, alongside Grieving.
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Description
- Grieving will appeal to readers wanting to better understand the conflicts and violence in contemporary Mexico, a country that looms large for many US Americans but in vague detail. The subject matter of narco/government violence is clearly of great interest to US readers (the television show Narcos, for example) but Cristina Rivera Garza takes a completely different approach to the topic. Rather than examining the causes of violence, she explores the ways it affects the country and offers a mode of resistance in face of suffering.
- The book mixes theory and personal essay. This style of hybrid writing only continues to increase in popularity (Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts or Andrea Long Chu's Females), and offers readers a departure from typically journalistic or sensationalized accounts of the political subject matter. Ultimately, the book calls for resistance by using of public grief to push back on the status quo of violence, both calling attention to the political issues and privileging a politics of care.
- Cristina Rivera Garza is a writer in translation, but is also US-based and has a fast-growing US readership. She has published two English-language books (The Iliac Crest and The Taiga Syndrome) in the last two years and is extremely active in literary and academic sphere. She will also be publishing two other books from university presses in fall 2020, alongside Grieving.
- The book mixes theory and personal essay. This style of hybrid writing only continues to increase in popularity (Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts or Andrea Long Chu's Females), and offers readers a departure from typically journalistic or sensationalized accounts of the political subject matter. Ultimately, the book calls for resistance by using of public grief to push back on the status quo of violence, both calling attention to the political issues and privileging a politics of care.
- Cristina Rivera Garza is a writer in translation, but is also US-based and has a fast-growing US readership. She has published two English-language books (The Iliac Crest and The Taiga Syndrome) in the last two years and is extremely active in literary and academic sphere. She will also be publishing two other books from university presses in fall 2020, alongside Grieving.
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Format
Softcover
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Price
16.50 €