A new anthology featuring women’s voices from Mexico
TSUNAMI: WOMEN’S VOICES FROM MEXICO is here!
About the book:
Merging waves of feminist thought from established and emerging Mexican women writers, Tsunami arrives with seismic, groundbreaking force.
Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami gathers the multiplicity of voices being raised in Mexico today against patriarchy and its buried structures. Tackling gender violence, community building, #MeToo, Indigenous rights, and more, these writings rock the core of what we know feminism to be, dismantling its Eurocentric roots and directing its critical thrust towards current affairs in Mexico today. Asserting plurality as a political priority, Tsunami includes trans voices, Indigenous voices, Afro-Latinx voices, voices from within and outside academic institutions, and voices spanning generations. Tsunami is the combined force and critique of the three feminist waves, the marea verde (“green wave”) of protests that have swept through Latin America in recent years, and the tides turned by insurgent feminisms at the margins of public discourse.
Contributors include Marina Azahua, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil, Dahlia de la Cerda, Alexandra R. DeRuiz, Lia García, Jimena González, Gabriela Jauregui, Fernanda Latani M. Bravo, Valeria Luiselli, Ytzel Maya, Brenda Navarro, Jumko Ogata, Daniela Rea, Cristina Rivera Garza, Diana J. Torres, Sara Uribe, and the Zapatista Army for National Liberation.
Praise for TSUNAMI:
“Tsunami is a shock to the system, a seismic disturbance unsettling our narratives about the injustices women endure and the structures that enable them. Through these essays which scream against mass murder of women, challenge the erasure of indigenous struggle, and morph the oppressive norms hidden in our language, an alternate reality is already born.” —Miriam Toews, author of Women Talking
ABOUT THE EDITORS
Heather Cleary is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose whose work has been recognized by English PEN, the National Book Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is the author of The Translator’s Visibility: Scenes from Contemporary Latin American Fiction.
Gabriela Jauregui is the author of the novel Feral, the poetry collections Many Fiestas, Leash Seeks Lost Bitch, and Controlled Decay, and the short story collection La memoria de las cosas. She edited and coauthored two essay collections, Tsunami and Tsunami 2, published in Spanish in 2018 and 2021 respectively. She holds a PhD in comparative literature from USC, an MFA in creative writing from UC Riverside, and an MA in critical theory from UC Irvine. She is a Soros New American Fellow and a Borchard Fellow, and was selected as part of the Hay Festival's Bogotá 39 best young authors in Latin America. She is cofounder of the Aura Estrada Prize for young women writers and teaches at the National Autonomous University in Mexico (UNAM).