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Author:
Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker
Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Date:
October 6, 2020
This investigation into state violence and mourning weaves together personal essay and literary theory, giving voice to the political experience of collective pain. Grieving is a hybrid collection of short crónicas, journalism, and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary Mexico and along the US-Mexico border.
What The Reviewers Say
[A] lucid, poignant collection of essays and poetry.
Across some 200 pages, Garza applies a lingual scalpel to the narrative of systemic violence.
Like everybody’s favorite guest at a dinner party, Cristina Rivera Garza is an excellent conversationalist. She pays careful attention to those who have spoken before her, then makes her own contribution, which unfailingly proves relevant, fascinating, and productive.
...concise but weighty and timely.
