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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

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A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winner Algarabía 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. Algarabía 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 puertorriqueña trans que mezcla poesía y narrativa especulativa, por un ganador del Premio Lambda Algarabía 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 través de sus años 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 cosmología taína dentro de un mismo verso. Algarabía inscribe un mito fundacional para las personas trans frente a su exclusión de los cánones literarios coloniales y anticoloniales y se ríe de su propia supervivencia con una rabia pícara y aguda.


  • | Author: Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
  • | Publisher: Graywolf Press
  • | Publication Date: Sep 02, 2025
  • | Number of Pages: 448 pages
  • | Binding: Paperback or Softback
  • | ISBN-10: 1644453517
  • | ISBN-13: 9781644453513
Author:
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
Publication Date:
Sep 02, 2025
Number of pages:
448 pages
Binding:
Paperback or Softback
ISBN-10:
1644453517
ISBN-13:
9781644453513