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Christina A León

Associate Professor of Literature
Literature
104 Friedl, 1316 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
104 Friedl, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Knots in the Throat

Journal article Representations · May 1, 2023 This essay concentrates on the figural knots that both refuse and suture readings across Raquel Salas Rivera’s Preguntas frecuentes and X/Ex/Exis. Tracing self-translations, the essay reads how Salas Rivera steals back from English and binary gende ... Full text Open Access Cite

Exorbitant Dust

Journal article GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies · June 1, 2021 AbstractThis article traces the figure of polvo (dust) across the writing career of Puerto Rican and New York writer Manuel Ramos Otero. Polvo heralds the macabre sensuality of his early short stories, long before his diagn ... Full text Open Access Cite