Overview
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Criticsā Circle Award for Criticism
By one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, this investigation intoĀ state violence and mourningĀ gives voice to the political experience of collective pain.
Grieving is a hybrid collection of short crĆ³nicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border. Drawing together literary theory and historical analysis, she outlines how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug traffickingāculminating in the misnamed āwar on drugsāāhas shaped her country. 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.
She states: āAs we write, as we work with languageāthe humblest and most powerful force available to usāwe 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.ā
āA lucid, poignant collection of essays and poetry. . . . deeply hopeful, ultimately love letters to writing itself, and to the power of language to overcome the silence that impunity imposes.ā āNew York Times Book Review
"For all the losses tallied, the pieces are imbued with optimism and an activistās passion for reshaping the world." āThe New Yorker
This book title, Grieving (Dispatches from a Wounded Country), ISBN: 9781936932931, by Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker, published by The Feminist Press at CUNY (October 6, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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