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Knots in the Throat

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León, C
Published in: Representations
May 1, 2023
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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 gender in the poetic and translation decisions to withhold, or hold onto, loss as itself incommensurable or untranslatable. His poetics situates Latinx at the hinge and limit of two colonial languages, requiring us to contend with ongoing problems of reference and translation. Through material tropes, Salas Rivera’s poetry registers entanglements and displacements of colonial grammars, transgender terms, and the material remains of empire.

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Christina A León
Author Christina A León Literature

Published In

Representations

DOI

10.1525/rep.2023.162.8.109

EISSN

1533-855X

ISSN

0734-6018

Publication Date

May 1, 2023

Volume

162

Issue

1

Start / End Page

109 / 124

Publisher

University of California Press

Related Subject Headings

  • Literary Studies
  • 4705 Literary studies
  • 4702 Cultural studies
  • 3605 Screen and digital media
  • 2005 Literary Studies
  • 2002 Cultural Studies
  • 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media
 

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León, C. (2023). Knots in the Throat. Representations, 162(1), 109–124. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.162.8.109
León, Christina. “Knots in the Throat.” Representations 162, no. 1 (May 1, 2023): 109–24. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2023.162.8.109.
León C. Knots in the Throat. Representations. 2023 May 1;162(1):109–24.
León, Christina. “Knots in the Throat.” Representations, vol. 162, no. 1, University of California Press, May 2023, pp. 109–24. Crossref, doi:10.1525/rep.2023.162.8.109.
León C. Knots in the Throat. Representations. University of California Press; 2023 May 1;162(1):109–124.
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Published In

Representations

DOI

10.1525/rep.2023.162.8.109

EISSN

1533-855X

ISSN

0734-6018

Publication Date

May 1, 2023

Volume

162

Issue

1

Start / End Page

109 / 124

Publisher

University of California Press

Related Subject Headings

  • Literary Studies
  • 4705 Literary studies
  • 4702 Cultural studies
  • 3605 Screen and digital media
  • 2005 Literary Studies
  • 2002 Cultural Studies
  • 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media