BIBFRAME Work

Title

Algarabía

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel (author )

Genre Form

• Transgender poetry (LCGFT)
• Poetry (LCGFT)
• Epic poetry (LCGFT)

Language

• Spanish
• eng

Classification

• LCC: PQ7442.S225 A78 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)
• DDC: 861/.7 (Assigner: dlc)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography

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.

Authorized Access Point

Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel. Algarabía

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:11:43.206841+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24136766

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: bibframe-2-6-0
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc