Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country (original 2011; edition 2020)

by Cristina Rivera Garza (Author)

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"Translated into English by Sarah Booker, GRIEVING is Cristina Rivera Garza's collection of short cr�nicas, 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"--… (more)

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Title:	Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
Authors:	Cristina Rivera Garza (Author)
Info:	The Feminist Press at CUNY (2020), 168 pages
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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country by Cristina Rivera-Garza (2011)

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Booker, Sarah	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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CLMP Firecracker Award (Finalist – Creative Nonfiction – 2021)

National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist – Criticism – 2020)

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"Translated into English by Sarah Booker, GRIEVING is Cristina Rivera Garza's collection of short cr�nicas, 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"--

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