Autobiography of Cotton - Couverture souple

Garza, Cristina Rivera

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 164445369X ISBN 13 : 9781644453698

Editeur : Graywolf Press, 2026

Synopsis

In 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers' strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel Human Mourning. In her own groundbreaking novel, Autobiography of Cotton, Cristina Rivera Garza recounts her grandparents' journey from mining towns to those same cotton fields as it intersects with Revueltas's life in a vivid and evocative history of cotton cultivation along the Mexico-US border.

Through archival research and personal narrative, Rivera Garza chronicles the way cotton transformed the borderlands by reconstructing the cotton workers' strike and reveals how cycles of deprivation and ecocide persist across generations. Deeply personal and politically acute, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents' lives and the territories they helped develop. An intimate fictionalization, Autobiography of Cotton reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Cristina Rivera Garza is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer. A MacArthur Fellow, she is the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and founder of the University of Houston's PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish.

Christina MacSweeney is the award-winning literary translator of works by Julián Herbert, Valeria Luiselli, and Elvira Navarro. She received the 2024 Sundial Literary Translation Award for her translation of Verónica Gerber Bicecci's The Company.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Graywolf Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 164445369X
• ISBN 13: 9781644453698
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
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