{"product_id":"algarabia","title":"Algarabía","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Puerto Rican trans epic that blends poetic play and speculative fiction, by a Lambda Literary Award winner \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlgarabía\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eClueless\u003c\/i\u003e to Taino cosmology within a single line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlgarabía\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUna epopeya puertorriqueña trans que mezcla poesía y narrativa especulativa, por un ganador del Premio Lambda \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlgarabía\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlgarabía\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45787361706031,"sku":"9781644453513","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/2855\/6847\/files\/imageloader_3460d4c2-d67b-457e-acd8-11155fee9370.jpg?v=1786148303","url":"https:\/\/tssbooks.com\/products\/algarabia","provider":"tssbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}