Algaraba: The Song of Cenex, Natural Son of the Isle Alarabyya / La cancin de [Paperback]

A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winner

Algarab?afollows 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 fromCluelessto Taino cosmology within a single line.

Algarab?ainscribes 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?asigue 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?ainscribe 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.

A Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winner

Una epopeya puertorrique?a trans que mezcla poes?a y narrativa especulativa, por un ganador del Premio Lambda

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Ricanlc.