{"product_id":"autobiography-of-cotton-by-cristina-rivera-garza","title":"Autobiography of Cotton by Cristina Rivera Garza","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"doPublisherSearch\" href=\"https:\/\/ipage.ingramcontent.com\/ipage\/productdetail?queryString=H4sIAAAAAAAA_x3KwQqCQBSF4VeRs3ZT0ObuSltFrVwEIqE4ljR0hpkrYdG7e233_YfzReohQ-uTy5FIiMbJGBSCA_mEOX0g253B23i8ViXWr7k8X_4OkLre5DCf3Pxm7G_VqN5Z7ydlN_Ie2_CYMw5ZQVW-0DS_BSyNDj18AAAA\u0026amp;R=87479638\u0026amp;dNo=0#\"\u003eGraywolf Press\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1934, a young José Revueltas traveled to Tamaulipas to support the cotton workers' strike in Estación Camarón, which became the basis of his landmark novel\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHuman Mourning\u003c\/i\u003e. In her own groundbreaking novel,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e, Cristina Rivera Garza recounts her grandparents' journey from mining towns to those same cotton fields as it intersects with Revueltas's life in a vivid and evocative history of cotton cultivation along the Mexico-US border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough archival research and personal narrative, Rivera Garza chronicles the way cotton transformed the borderlands by reconstructing the cotton workers' strike and reveals how cycles of deprivation and ecocide persist across generations. Deeply personal and politically acute, Rivera Garza crafts a new kind of border novel that tells how a brittle land radically altered her grandparents' lives and the territories they helped develop. An intimate fictionalization, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutobiography of Cotton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51996725575973,"sku":"9781644453698","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/9781644453698.gif?v=1770931729","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/autobiography-of-cotton-by-cristina-rivera-garza","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}