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Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
Written by Cristina Rivera Garza
Narrated by Marisa Blake
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This investigation into state violence and mourning weaves together personal essay and literary theory, giving voice to the political experience of collective pain.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherDreamscape Media
TranslatorSarah Booker
Release dateMar 9, 2021
ISBN9781666536256
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Cristina Rivera Garza
Cristina Rivera Garza is an award-winning author, translator, and critic. Her books, originally written in Spanish, have been translated into multiple languages. She has won the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature, the Anna Seghers-Preis, and the International Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize. In 2020, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Grant. She received her PhD in 2012 in Latin American history from the University of Houston, where she teaches.
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