Join DMLL and Humanities on the Edge on March 18th for Cristina Rivera Garza's "Writing in communality: An aesthetics of disappropriation." Rivera Garza is a great Mexican novelist and McArthur fellow.
Thursday, March 18th at 5:30pm
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Cristina Rivera Garza (Tamaulipas, México) is a novelist, literary theorist, distinguished professor of Hispanic Studies and the Director of the Creative Writing in Spanish Program at the University of Houston. In 2020 she received the MacArthur Fellowship. She is the author of eight novels, among them, No one will see me cry (2001) and La muerte me da (2009), both of which won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz for that year, as well as The Illiac Crest (2010) and, most recently, Autobiografía del algodón (2020). Her widely influential book of literary theory, Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación (2013), was recently translated by Vanderbilt University Press as The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation (2020). She has also been the recipient of the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (2013) and the Anna Seghers-Preis (Berlin, 2005).
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