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The Iliac Crest (La cresta de Ilión) by Cristina Rivera Garza; Sarah Booker; Elena Poniatowska is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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

First published in Spanish as La cresta de Ilión in 2002 by Tusquets Editores.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 & eventually finds himself in a sanatorium. A Gothic tale of destabilized male-female binaries & subverted literary tropes, this is the book's first English publication.CRISTINA RIVERA GARZA is an award-winning writer, poet, translator, & critic. The recipient of the Roger Caillois Award & the Anna Seghers Prize, she is the only author who has won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize twice. She is currently Distinguished Professor in Hispanic Studies at the University of Houston.SARAH BOOKER is a Spanish-to-English translator & PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Seville.ELENA PONIATOWSKA is a prolific author & journalist who focuses on social and human rights issues. Her work is read around the world & has won numerous literary awards, such as the prestigious Miguel de Cervantes Prize.

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

Author

Cristina Rivera Garza; Sarah Booker; Elena Poniatowska

Publisher

The Feminist Press at the City University of New York

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558613928

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance