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- Title
Irreconcilable Loss in Cristina Henríquez's The World in Half.
- Authors
Vigil, Ariana
- Abstract
This article examines loss and (attempted) recovery in Cristina Henríquez's 2009 novel The World in Half. I explore how the work juxtaposes neurological decline with geological change through the narrator, Mira. The piece reads Mira's explorations into her family's past alongside Panamanian history and specifically US intervention in the isthmus. Arguing for the importance of irreconciliable loss, or peoples and histories that can never be recovered, the article calls on us to consider the significance and inevitability of ongoing loss and the necessity of dwelling in a state of impermanence.
- Subjects
WORLD in Half, The (Book); HENRIQUEZ, Cristina, 1977-; LOSS (Psychology) in literature; EMIGRATION &; immigration in literature; PANAMANIAN Americans
- Publication
MELUS, 2022, Vol 47, Issue 3, p130
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/melus/mlac063