Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia
Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coodinación de Humanidades, Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Asia y África (Serie: Cartas desde una pandemia), 2021. First Edition. Paperback. 67p., illus., wrps. New. Item #78836
ISBN: 9786073052580
Illustration by Yussef A. Galicia
As Alicia Girón writes, the members of PUEAA "dreamed of carrying out activities in different places, such as Korea, China, Japan, India, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa and Spain [...] but everything changed on March 16, when it was decreed the closure of all activities. Thus, the letters contained in this book are addressed mostly to loved or admired beings who live outside of Mexico. In this way, the authors allow us to glimpse not only their own private world and study interests but also that of their interlocutors, thus giving us a sample of their sensitivity to an event that has affected the whole world. Indeed, the variety of hot springs exposed in the letters range from the nostalgia of the physical encounter, to the anguish due to the number of dead and infected,
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