Before injustice and forgetfulness, digging in the intimate archive. Operations of resistance in El invencible verano de Liliana, by Cristina Rivera Garza.

Before injustice and forgetfulness, digging in the intimate archive. Operations of resistance in El invencible verano de Liliana, by Cristina Rivera Garza

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https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i36.833

Abstract

In 2021, thirty years after her sister’s feminicide, Cristina Rivera Garza publishes El invencible verano de Liliana, in which she rebuilds the patches of a life cut off by patriarchal violence. The analysis examines how the writer, at the same times she traces back the official archive, she starts digging in the intimate archive, and in this journey between the public and the private, the spinal anchoring of the materiality of a halfway writing, or in the frontier, between fiction and non-fiction. It is shown how she chooses disruptive ways to do justice and fix memory on her sister‘s femicide, and in this gesture, she establishes alliances and makes visible fights and theoretical contributions of feminism in the last decades.

Author Biography

María Virginia González, Departamento de Letras, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, UNLPam

Doctora en Letras por la Universidad Nacional de La Plata y Profesora en Letras por la Universidad Nacional de La Pampa. Es Docente Adjunta en las cátedras Literatura Latinoamericana I y II de la carrera de Letras de la Facultad de Ciencias Humanas de la UNLPam. Ha publicado el libro Construcciones identitarias en la narrativa escrita por mujeres cubanas a fines del siglo XX (2017). Integra la Red Académica de Docencia e Investigación en el área de la Literatura Latinoamericana, KATATAY, y el Grupo de Estudios Caribeños que dirige la Dra. Celina Manzoni en el ILH de la Universidad de Buenos Aires.

Líneas de investigación: 

Literatura contemporánea de Latinoamerica y del Caribe, en particular, sus cruces con la categoría de género. 

 

Últimas tres publicaciones:

1)  González, María Virginia. Capítulo “Mi hermano de Jamaica Kincaid: transgredir el género para con(s)tarme una vida.” Itinerarios caribeños: linajes, archivo y género. Francisco Ailleo (coord..). Mar del Plata, EUDEM. En proceso de edición.

2) González, María Virginia“De huracanes y restos. La obra de Eduardo Lalo”. Manzoni, Celina (comp.). Configuraciones del trópico. Urdimbres y debates en la cultura caribeña. La Plata: Katatay. 2021. Pp. 79-104. ISSN 1851-7811 ISBN978-987-46975-8-5.

3) González, María Virginia y María Pía Bruno. “Discursos sobre el origen: el archivo de la Casa Museo Olga Orozco”. María Virginia González. En: Graciela Salto, Dora Batistton y Sonia Bertón (comp.). Médanos fugitivos: poética y archivo en Olga Orozco. Buenos Aires/Santa Rosa: Teseo/Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, 2020, pp. 267-306. ISBN 978-987-723-247-9

 

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2025-07-01

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González, M. V. (2025). Before injustice and forgetfulness, digging in the intimate archive. Operations of resistance in El invencible verano de Liliana, by Cristina Rivera Garza.: Before injustice and forgetfulness, digging in the intimate archive. Operations of resistance in El invencible verano de Liliana, by Cristina Rivera Garza. Valenciana, 18(36). https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v18i36.833

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No. 36 (2025): Valenciana, julio-diciembre 2025

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