The crisis on the border between Mexico and the United States is the result of “capitalism of hatred”, says Cristina Rivera Garza

The Mexican writer participated in the table at the Paraty International Literary Party, Flip, next to Argentina María Negroni

The Mexican writer Cristina Rivera GarzaWinner of the Pulitzer Award for Liliana’s invincible summer (Authentic), spoke of the crisis on the border between the United States and Mexico during the table that was divided with Argentina María Negroni In Paraty International Literary Party, Flip 2025This Saturday, 2.

The author was born in 1964 in the municipality of Heroica Matamoros, who is on the border with the state of Texas, and currently lives in Houston. “Every time they ask me this beginning by saying: he is horrible as he seems,” he said, in response to the mediator Guilherme Freitas.

The writer considers that the conflict on the border and policy against American immigration is the result of “capitalism of hatred”. He said he was able to achieve, for almost ten years in Houston, that Mexican celebrations in the city have decreased for fear of repression.

“It is necessary to fight every day, with the body, as feminists say. For me, working at the university offers creative writing courses and literature is a form of activism,” he added. He currently manages the doctoral doctoral program at the University of Houston.

Writing and memory

The table between Cristina and María Negroni, who said she has been getting to know each other for many years, took a long time to commit himself and had some translation problems. However, both were able to present their works and reflect on the creation of literature from memory and research.

The heart of the damage (West), by the Argentine writer, is a car -heard about the complicated relationship with the mother, a mixture of grudge and charm. “The writing of a book is always a mystery for the author or the author. I think the book was writing, a little based on loss. It is not a mourning book, but in some way it had to articulate something that has always been within me. This maternal figure somehow configures me,” he said.

Already Liliana’s invincible summerFrom Cristina, he reconstructs the life of the writer’s sister, killed in 1990, at the age of 21, victim of femicide. Mexican commented that he had already tried to write the book previously, without success and has credited feminist mobilizations to Latin America who, according to her, produced the language that she can use in the book. When Liliana was killed, the term “femicide” was not part of the public sphere. “They were the ones who made it possible to say: that’s what happened,” he said.

He also spoke Cotton autobiographyPublished this year by The Authentic, a novel that saves the history of his grandparents on the border, in a cotton plantation. “What moved me was a search for identity. It was a loving research. A careful job, a welcome that we offer to our dead,” he said.

At another point, the mediator asked María to talk about his relationship with Clarice Lispector. The epigraphy of the Argentina book is a phrase by the writer: “I will create what happened to me”. He said Clarice, in this sentence, “makes a sort of slot in the distance between the word and the world”.

“My quote as a clarice is to say that what says this book is not something that happened. I am not really sure. Inside the book, the mother denies the memories,” he said, adding, “Writing a book is like entering a well in the dark. I have to believe that it will bring me where I want to go.”

Source: Terra

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