The Sorrows of Mexico - Softcover

Cacho, Lydia; Hernández, Anabel; Villoro, Juan; Osorno, Diego Enrique; González Rodríguez, Sergio; Turati, Marcela; Parra, Emiliano Ruiz; Poniatowska, Elena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857056204 ISBN 13: 9780857056207

Verlag: MacLehose Press, 2016

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Indispensable . . . What is striking about these essays is the sensibilities they reveal, the sense of exasperation, resignation and wry anger coursing through the collection -- Scott Esposito * Times Literary Supplement * The Sorrows of Mexico describes not only the bloody tragedy of this beautiful country, but also the struggle to make things better. -- Ioan Grillo * Author of Gangster Warlords and El Narco. *

Reseña del editor:

Over the last twelve years, as Mexico has become the epicentre of the international drug trade, more than one hundred journalists, a generation of writers, has been killed or disappeared. And not a single culprit has been jailed. There are vast areas of the country where no-one now dares to report from - and without a free press, there can be no democracy.

This important, timely and provocative book is a collection of essays from the leading writer-journalists of Mexico, each one concentrating on a single issue among the many which afflict their country. So - in the words of Lydia Cacho, Anabel Hernández, Juan Villoro, Diego Enrique Osorno, Emiliano Ruiz Parra, Sergio González Rodríguez and Marcela Turati - this will be a crucial testimony and proof of the bravest voices in a country which needs this courage to denounce the depth and range of corruption and violence.

The contribution of each writer will consist of a new essay along with passages of previously untranslated text. An appendix lists the names of each of the journalists who have lost their lives for exposing corruption or criminality, and a second appendix - with the collaboration of the organisation Article 19 - includes extracts from the work of a number of those dead crusading writers.

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• Verlag: MacLehose Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0857056204
• ISBN 13: 9780857056207
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352