Trash by Aguilar-Zéleny, Sylvia

Trash (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781646052202)

Vendor: Sylvia Aguilar-Z駘eny
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Format: Paperback
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Trash by Aguilar-Zéleny, Sylvia

Trash

$15.95
Trash by Aguilar-Zéleny, Sylvia

Trash

$15.95
Format: Paperback
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Trash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Ju疵ez, Mexico.

Aguilar Z駘eny's Trash shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager abandoned by her guardian at the dump, a scientist doing research on the residents of the dump, and a transwoman living nearby who is the matriarch of a group of sex workers.

Each one of the characters navigates family, abandonment, power, jealousy, greed, and multiple taboos around sexuality and gender violence. Their stories are linked by geography and by ideas of waste and abandonment.

As Aguilar Z駘eny explores these territories in her book, she asks crucial questions: Who is seen as disposable and why? How do women find their own means of survival and joy in the midst of a perilous sociopolitical context? What does it mean to live a life in a time of austerity and extreme violence? Trash is a critical intervention in Mexican literature.



Author: Sylvia Aguilar-Z駘eny
ISBN-10: 164605220X
ISBN-13: 9781646052202
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Language: English
Published: 03/21/2023
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.90h x 4.90w x 0.80d
By Sylvia Aguilar-Z駘eny
By Sylvia Aguilar-Z駘eny
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Sylvia Aguilar Z駘eny received her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso. She is the author of four short-story books and a young adult novel series. Her novel Todo Eso Es Yo won the National Book Award in Tamaulipas, M騙ico in 2015, and was republished as The Everything I Have Lost (Cinco Puntos Press, 2020) as a rewriting in English. Her work has been included in anthologies in M騙ico, the United States, Australia, Peru, and South Korea. She has also given conferences and participated in various panels addressing the work of women writers of Latin America, as well as panels on teaching bilingual creative writing and/or teaching fiction to first or second generation students.

JD Pluecker has translated numerous books from the Spanish, including Gore Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018), Ant?ona Gonz疝ez (Les Figues Press, 2016), and Writing with Caca by Luis Felipe Fabre (Green Lantern Press, 2021). Their book of poetry and image, Ford Over, was released in 2016 from Noemi Press. JD is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant and has exhibited work at Blaffer Art Museum, the Hammer Museum, Project Row Houses, and more.

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