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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

Cristina Rivera Garza
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Grieving is Cristina Rivera Garza’s hybrid collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border. Drawing together horror theory and historical analysis, she outlines how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug trafficking—culminating in the misnamed “war on drugs”—has shaped the political landscape on both sides of the border. Working from and against this 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.”
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
168 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1936932938
ISBN13:
9781936932931
kindle Asin:
B08C9HMNGS

Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country

Cristina Rivera Garza
4.25/5 (289 ratings)
Read Download
Grieving is Cristina Rivera Garza’s hybrid collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border. Drawing together horror theory and historical analysis, she outlines how neoliberalism, corruption, and drug trafficking—culminating in the misnamed “war on drugs”—has shaped the political landscape on both sides of the border. Working from and against this 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.”
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
168 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1936932938
ISBN13:
9781936932931
kindle Asin:
B08C9HMNGS

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