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Algarabía: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabíyya / La canción de Cenex, hijo natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya

By (author) Roque Raquel Salas Rivera

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A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winner AlgarabÃa 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. AlgarabÃa 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 puertorriqueÃ±a trans que mezcla poesÃa y narrativa especulativa, por un ganador del Premio Lambda AlgarabÃa 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 travÃ©s de sus aÃ±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 cosmologÃa taÃna dentro de un mismo verso. AlgarabÃa inscribe un mito fundacional para las personas trans frente a su exclusiÃ³n de los cÃ¡nones literarios coloniales y anticoloniales y se rÃe de su propia supervivencia con una rabia pÃcara y aguda.

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