A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winner
Algarab?a follows Cenex, a trans being who narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf. An inhabitant of a colony of Earth in a parallel universe, Cenex leads us through his years as an experimental subject, a stay in suburbia, and not-so-far-off lands as he struggles to find a name, a body, and a stable home. His song clashes variegated sources with work by cis writers on trans figures, referencing everything from Clueless to Taino cosmology within a single line. Algarab?a inscribes an origin narrative for trans people in the face of their erasure from colonial and anti-colonial literary canons, laughing at its own survival with sharp, unserious rage. Una epopeya puertorrique?a trans que mezcla poes?a y narrativa especulativa, por un ganador del Premio Lambda Algarab?a sigue a Cenex, un ser trans que narra su vida retrospectivamente mientras navega por las historias contadas en su nombre. Habitante de una colonia de la Tierra en un universo paralelo, Cenex nos conduce a trav?s de sus a?os como sujeto experimental, una estancia suburbana, unas tierras no tan lejanas y su lucha por encontrar un cuerpo y un hogar estables. Su canto enfrenta textos de escritores cis sobre figuras trans con una variedad de fuentes, haciendo referencia a Clueless y a la cosmolog?a ta?na dentro de un mismo verso. Algarab?a inscribe un mito fundacional para las personas trans frente a su exclusi?n de los c?nones literarios coloniales y anticoloniales y se r?e de su propia supervivencia con una rabia p?cara y aguda.Author: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 448
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781644453513
Language: English
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