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Estación Camarón: Cotton, Violence, and the Aridity Line on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Date
Tue February 13th 2018, 5:30 - 7:00pm
Location
Bolivar House (582 Alvarado Row)
Speaker(s): Cristina Rivera-Garza
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Please join us for a conversation with Cristina Rivera-Garza, one of Mexico's leading contemporary novelists, on Tuesday, February 13th at 5:30pm at Bolivar House. Rivera-Garza is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and Creative Writing at the University of HoustonÌýandÌýaward-winning author of six novels, three collections of short stories, five collections of poetry,Ìýand three non-fiction books. We will discuss two unpublished pieces by Professor Rivera-Garza: a literary piece in SpanishÌýmade out of juxtapositions of a series of 140-characters phrases and a history essay in English. Both pieces center on issues of violence in the U.S.-Mexico Border and will serve as a basis for exploring the politics and poetics of decolonial artistic and intellectual production.ÌýPlease RSVP in order to receive electronic copies of the unpublished texts by Cristina Rivera-Garza we will be discussing by emailing Pablo Seward at pseward [at] stanford.edu (pseward[at]stanford[dot]edu).