The autopoetics of Cristina Rivera Garza: a writing project

Abstract

Numerous writers have recently published essays in which they reflect on their literary work and writing practices. Among them is Cristina Rivera Garza, who has two fundamental books for Latin American literature in which she develops an aesthetic proposal that dialogues with her own literary work and with contemporary literature. In this sense, based on the concept of "autopoetics" and its specific methodology, we will study Los muertos indóciles. Necroescrituras y desapropiación and Escrituras geológicas as part of a personal writing project and, consequently, of an "authorial project" that the writer has been consolidating in the contemporary literary scene.