Carmen Boullosa
Список книг автора Carmen BoullosaManeras de escribir y ser / no ser madre
Las catorce voces que coinciden en este libro establecen un diálogo intergeneracional sobre la idea de las maternidades y las no maternidades frente al trabajo creativo. ¿Cómo vivimos la intersección maternidad / literatura quienes decidimos ser madres y quienes no? Las autoras de estas crónicas dan cuenta de la manera en que han debido enfrentar los mitos de la maternidad y el trabajo artístico: las madres como escritoras incompletas, las escritoras que no son madres como mujeres incompletas, el oficio de la escritura como una labor que se lleva a cabo en aislamiento o la famosa «torre de marfil» donde el escritor espera ser tocado por la musa. La intención de este volumen es derribar estos mitos a partir de la diversidad de sus historias. Una de las temáticas en que convergen las diversas visiones presentes en este libro es la de las labores de cuidados, que desde siempre han sido precarizadas y feminizadas; además, durante la pandemia su dimensión problemática se ha agudizado de manera desproporcionada. Estamos convencidas de que lo personal es político, por lo tanto, la visión privada de la maternidad o su negación debe volverse parte de la conversación pública.
Texas
"Mexico's greatest woman writer."—Roberto Bolaño"A luminous writer . . . Boullosa is a masterful spinner of the fantastic"—[i]Miami HeraldAn imaginative writer in the tradition of Juan Rulfo, Jorge Luis Borges, and Cesar Aira, Carmen Boullosa shows herself to be at the height of her powers with her latest novel. Loosely based on the little-known 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States, [i]Texas is a richly imagined evocation of the volatile Tex-Mex borderland. Boullosa views border history through distinctly Mexican eyes, and her sympathetic portrayal of each of her wildly diverse characters—Mexican ranchers and Texas Rangers, Comanches and cowboys, German socialists and runaway slaves, Southern belles and dancehall girls—makes her storytelling tremendously powerful and absorbing.Shedding important historical light on current battles over the Mexican–American frontier while telling a gripping story with Boullosa's singular prose and formal innovation, [i]Texas marks the welcome return of a major writer who has previously captivated American audiences and is poised to do so again.[b]Carmen Boullosa (b. 1954) is one of Mexico's leading novelists, poets, and playwrights. Author of seventeen novels, her books have been translated into numerous world languages. Recipient of numerous prizes and honors, including a Guggenheim fellowship, Boullosa is currently Distinguished Lecturer at City College of New York.[b]Samantha Schnee is founding editor and chairman of the board of [i]Words Without Borders. She has also been a senior editor with [i]Zoetrope, and her translations have appeared in the [i]Guardian, [i]Granta, and the [i]New York Times.
A Narco History
The term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into acting as its border enforcer—with increasingly deadly consequences.Mexico was not a helpless victim. Powerful forces within the country profited hugely from supplying Americans with what their government forbade them. But the policies that spawned the drug war have proved disastrous for both countries.Written by two award-winning authors, one American and the other Mexican, A Narco History reviews the interlocking twentieth-century histories that produced this twenty-first century calamity, and proposes how to end it.
