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Selected Works of Cheyla Samuelson
Presentation
Cristina Rivera Garza: Violence & Literature in Mexico: Critical Dialogue with Cheyla Samuelson and Jen Hofer
Lingua Franca Speakers Series, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (2015)
  • Cristina Rivera Garza
  • Cheyla Samuelson, San Jose State University
  • Jen Hofer, California Institute of the Arts
Abstract
Cristina Rivera Garza is one of the most original & challenging voices on the Mexican literary scene today. Her work addresses issues of feminism, violence, madness, & the body, and she has been active in theorizing the practice of literature in the context of the current drug war.

The author of many books, she has won several notable international prizes for her fiction & poetry, including the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, twice. Carlos Fuentes called her first novel, No One Will See Me Cry, "one of the most beautiful & disturbing novels ever written in Mexico."

Rivera Garza teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at UCSD. She will discuss her work with literary scholar Cheyla Samuelson (San José State University) & poet, translator & activist Jen Hofer (CalArts).
Keywords
  • Mexican literature,
  • Critical dialogue
Disciplines
Publication Date
May 13, 2015
Location
Pomona, CA
Citation Information
Cristina Rivera Garza, Cheyla Samuelson and Jen Hofer. "Cristina Rivera Garza: Violence & Literature in Mexico: Critical Dialogue with Cheyla Samuelson and Jen Hofer" Lingua Franca Speakers Series, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/cheyla_samuelson/58/