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""Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad argues that Latinx inscriptions require us to read at the edge of materiality and semiosis, charting a nimble method for ""reading"" various forms of Latinx marks and even the word Latinx across art, performance, poetry, plays, and fiction""--

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"""Wandering through the signs of Latinidad, Christina León offers a reading of some of its radiantly opaque figures, calling forth attention to the marks that matter through a counterpoint of abstraction and materiality. Identity does not disappear: it emulses into canvas, earth, and print; it challenges us to envision another relationship between experience and its aesthetic expression. Refusing categories such as outsider, misfit, and minoritarian, León fractures mere symbolic inclusion and offers a path to the sensible. Shifting from a straightforward reading of identity to an intricate reading of reference, León goes beyond ethnic/racial and sexual-gender identity markers to unearth Latinidad as catachrestic, incommensurate with its mark."" * Licia Fiol Matta, author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral. * ""Rich and passionate, and simply superb. In a moment of critical pressure on the very categories of ‘latinidad’ and ‘latinx,’ in a moment of reflection on the status of queerness as ‘cuir,’ Matters of Inscription provides a complex and rich ethical-political reading of their construction in and through aesthetic practice. Powerful in its conceptual approximation, it is even more impressive in its readings of Ana Mendieta, Manuel Ramos Otero, María Irene Fornés, Justin Torres, and Roque Salas Rivera."" * Rocío Zambrana, author of Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico *"

Wandering through the signs of Latinidad, Christina León offers a reading of some of its radiantly opaque figures, calling forth attention to the marks that matter through a counterpoint of abstraction and materiality. Identity does not disappear: it emulses into canvas, earth, and print; it challenges us to envision another relationship between experience and its aesthetic expression. Refusing categories such as outsider, misfit, and minoritarian, León fractures mere symbolic inclusion and offers a path to the sensible. Shifting from a straightforward reading of identity to an intricate reading of reference, León goes beyond ethnic/racial and sexual-gender identity markers to unearth Latinidad as catachrestic, incommensurate with its mark. * Licia Fiol Matta, author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral. * Rich and passionate, and simply superb. In a moment of critical pressure on the very categories of ‘latinidad’ and ‘latinx,’ in a moment of reflection on the status of queerness as ‘cuir,’ Matters of Inscription provides a complex and rich ethical-political reading of their construction in and through aesthetic practice. Powerful in its conceptual approximation, it is even more impressive in its readings of Ana Mendieta, Manuel Ramos Otero, María Irene Fornés, Justin Torres, and Roque Salas Rivera. * Rocío Zambrana, author of Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico *

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Christina A. León is Assistant Professor in the Program in Literature at Duke University. Her writing has been published in Diacritics, Representations, GLQ, ASAP/Journal, and Women and Performance, among other places.

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