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Literature/Hispanic Studies Conference Room.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza is
the author of several novels, two volumes of short stories, poetry and essays.
Here novel "Nadie me verá llorar", a meditation on the ways in which
medical and popular language define insanity, appeared in English as "No
One Will See me Cry." She was born in Matamoros, Mexico, had taught in
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color:black'>Marta Hernández Salván<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>University of California Riverside<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>(951) 827-1481<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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