Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow Carolina Sánchez Publishes on Cristina Rivera Garza’s Material and Geological Writing
We are thrilled to share that Zemurray-Stone Post-Doctoral Fellow Carolina Sánchez has recently published “The Material and Geological Writing of Cristina Rivera Garza” in the ASAP/Review Journal.
In this article, Dr. Sánchez works on the intersections of literature and environmental humanities to explore the use of archives of the acclaimed Mexican author Cristina Rivera Garza. Rivera Garza’s work has long challenged conventional literary boundaries, and this article brings fresh insights into how her novel Autobiography of cotton (2020) engages with the material world—from plants to landscapes and human bodies—as both subjects and mediums of storytelling. From an environmental perspective, Sánchez analyzes quotidian life in extractive zones, such as cotton plantations, and how the novel describes the ways in which these zones transform the territories, endangering the lives of both human and non-human inhabitants by expanding agricultural borders under precarious living conditions.
This article was published in the special cluster GeoSemantics II, edited by Azucena Castro and Estefanía Bournot, that explores “the multiplicity of meanings that emerge from artistic and critical engagements with the Earth in the Latin American archive.” We invite you to read this article on how Rivera Garza’s writing reimagines our relationship with the material world. Find the full article here.
