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Alejandra Oliva

Chicago
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A Mapuche Writer Renders Life in Urban Chile

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By Alejandra Oliva
| Americas Quarterly Verified
Reading Time: 3 minutes This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on Latin America’s demographic transformation “The word piñen comes from Mapudungun and refers to dust or grime stuck to the skin.” This note opens the new short story collection Piñen by Daniela Catrileo, a Mapuche writer from Chile. The four stories that follow feature characters dealing with piñen as the nexus of body and place, and the grimy inescapability of both.
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Do I Take the Living Water?

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By Alejandra Oliva
| Commonweal Magazine Verified
I have been thirsty of late. I haven’t known what for exactly, but when I read this week’s Lenten Sunday readings, about the Samaritan woman at the well, her desire for living water, I thought: Yes, that, exactly. In many ways, this isn’t surprising. My day job is at an immigration legal-service provider, and I spend a lot of the rest of my time volunteering with an immigration bond fund.
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Visions of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

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By Alejandra Oliva
| Americas Quarterly Verified
Reading Time: 3 minutes This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on the Trump Doctrine In Autobiography of Cotton, Pulitzer Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza asks what it means to understand ourselves “as guests in a radically shared world,” a task that requires, she writes, “living in a continual state of alert” to the threads connecting humans, plants, animals—even stones.
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