Algarabía : the song of Cenex, natural son of the Isle Alarabíyya = Algarabía : la canción de Cenex, hijo natural de la Ínsula Alarabíyya / Roque Raquel Salas Rivera.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel, Author.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Trans people--Poetry.

Trans people.

Spanish language materials--Bilingual.

Genre:

epic poetry.

Transgender poetry.

Epic poetry.

Physical Description:

218, 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Algarabía is an epic poem that follows the journey of Cenex, a trans being who retrospectively narrates his life while navigating the stories told on his behalf. An inhabitant of Algarabía, a colony of Earth in a parallel universe, Cenex struggles to find a name, a body, and a stable home. The song of Cenex weaves and clashes texts by cis writers on trans figures with fragments from historical, legal, and other nonliterary texts. Cenex leads us through his childhood hospitalization, his years as an experimental subject, a brief stay in suburbia, twisted meanderings, and not-so-far-off lands accompanied by a merry band of chosen queers. Referencing everything from pop culture to Taino cosmology and philosophy (at times in a single line), this book laughs at its own survival with sharp, unserious rage. The edition is composed of two original texts-one written in the Puerto Rican dialect of Spanish, the other in a reconsideration of English. Algarabía inscribes an origin narrative for trans people in the face of their erasure from both colonial and anti-colonial literary canons"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"The author wrote the text in both Spanish and English; it is not a translation."--Provided by publisher.

Bound tête-bêche. Book presented in two parts bound back-to-back and inverted.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel, Algarabía

ISBN:

9781644453513

1644453517

OCLC:

1513127715