Can I read The Iliac Crest (La Cresta de Ilión) on EtoBox?

The Iliac Crest (La Cresta de Ilión) by Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker (translation), Elena Poniatowska (afterword) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Iliac Crest (La Cresta de Ilión) about?

Originally published as La Cresta de Ilión in 2002 by Tusquets Editores This excavation of forgotten Mexican women writers illustrates how gendered language wields destructive power.On a dark & stormy night, two mysterious women invade an unnamed narrator’s house, where they proceed to ruthlessly question their host’s gender & identity. The increasingly frantic protagonist fails to defend his supposed masculinity and eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries and subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.°°° Cristina Rivera Garza is the author of numerous works of fiction & non-fiction. Originally written in Spanish, these works have been translated into English, French, Italian, Portuguese, & Korean. Born in Mexico in 1964, she has lived in the US since 1989. She is Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies & Director of Creative Writing at the University of Houston & was awarded the MacArthur “Genius” Grant in 2020. She is the recipient of the Roger Caillois Award for Latin American Literature (2013), the Anna Seghers-Preis (2005), & the only two-time winner of the International Sor Juana Inés de la

Who reads The Iliac Crest (La Cresta de Ilión)?

Author

Cristina Rivera Garza, Sarah Booker (translation), Elena Poniatowska (afterword)

Publisher

The Feminist Press at City University of New York

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781936932061

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

4.1 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14