The Company - Veronica Gerber Bicecci

Based On A Trip To The Now Abandoned Mexican Mercury Mining Town Of San Felipe Nuevo Mercurio, The Company Explores The Development Of Mercury Mining As A Technology And Its Present Environmental Consequences, Both Predictable And Unforeseen, In What Cristina Rivera Garza Terms An Exemplary Disappropriative Work. In A Book That Subverts Both Textual And Graphic Expectations, Part A Involves A Rewriting Of Amparo Dvilas The Houseguest, Changing Specific Aspects Of The Text: Verb Tenses Are Transposed To The Future; The Houseguest Becomes The Menacing Presence Of The Company; And The Domestic Helper Who Suffers The Intimidation Of The Company Along With Her Unnamed Female Employer Is The Machine. In Part B, Scientific Reports Dating From The 1950s To The Present Day, Conversations With Experts And Miners, And Excerpts From The Story Of Long, Tall Jos Construct A History Of Mercury Mining In The Area And The Subsequent Environmental Contamination.