Please join us for the latest in the Francisco Scarano Lecture Series: "Como anguila: Eel Translations and the Colonial Embodiments of Language," held by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera on October 5 at the Chazen Auditorium!
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, performer, and assistant professor of Comparative Literature University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus. He has published eight book of poetry and serves as Creative Editor for sx salon: a small axe literary platform.
Drawing from translators and writers such as Yásnaya Aguilar Gil, Don Mee Choi, Vincente L. Rafael, and Mon Kareem, this talk draws from a Como anguila: Eel Translations and the Colonial Embodiments of Language, a work-in-progress that maps translations that have irrevocably marked Puerto Rican history. This theorization of decolonial eel-like translations is inspired by Friar Jerónimo Ramón Pané's description of the transgender beings in the Taino cosmology in Relación acerca de las antigüedades los indios and pays homage to the slippery movements we make to escape a colonial grasp.