Mexico City / 06.11.2024 01:13:12
Offering for massacre in El Paso, Texas. AFP expand
Roadkill This is how the massacres of run over animals that are seen on the roads are specifically called in the United States. I first heard the word on a meandering trip I took over twenty years ago to cover a Gun Show in Fort Worth, Texas. The term, so pathetic that it does not even refer to slaughtered animals, returned these weeks during the reading of Ana Emilia Felker‘s new book, published by Almadía.
With beautiful chronicler impetus and refined novelist sensitivity, Ana Emilia travels through roadkills Texans investigating the massacre that occurred on August 3, 2019 in which 23 people were murdered by a young white supremacist outraged by the invasion Hispanic Given the events that occurred in a Walmart in El Paso, although committed to the victims, the writer wonders whether or not she should look at the perpetrator.
In the tradition of contemporary chronicle, the Anglo and Latin American perspectives contrast in their respective founding works: Truman Capote wrote In cold blood from the perspective of the Holcomb murderers, while Rodolfo Walsh told the story of Operation Massacre from the point of view of those who survived the executions of the Argentine dictatorship.
Ana Emilia takes other directions: she transforms her research into an immersion in American culture. Thus, he presses in prose the terrible racism of a generation intoxicated with digital shit, the capitalist voracity of overcaffeinated zombies and the cynical reality show permanent that embodies and radiates a figure like Donald Trump.
A political system in decline is the swamp that the chronicler is letting us see, who, due to her critical temper, sometimes referred me to the stories of David Foster Wallace, although the lilting tone of her writing is more in line with that of the letters. narratives of cities by our senior chronicler, Alma Guillermoprieto.
To finish strengthening – or playing – a terrestrial immersion that is transformed into a literary challenge (or perhaps the challenge came first and then the immersion?), Ana Emilia digs into her most personal memory until she finds teenage memories and questions for her father that dialogue with a contemporary reflection on the stagnant water in the weeds we step on. That’s why Swamp It is a great book to cross the roadkills of our time.
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