Cristina Rivera Garza Archive
Gender and the Body in Breasts and Eggs, The Collection, and The Iliac Crest
Around the world, woman novelists are refocusing narratives about desire, sex, and the body around their own experiences. Some of their stories explore society’s current hang-ups around women’s bodies, some paint a picture of a potential world full of guilt-free pleasure, and some explode the idea of gender determined
Disappearing Distinctions in Cristina Rivera Garza’s The Iliac Crest
With rich, corporeal symbolism, Rivera Garza not only demonstrates how gender classification and the language that serves it disappear marginalized voices from literature and marginalized bodies from the world, but also asks how this tiered disappearance might be tempered.