Book record
Sor Juana and Other Monsters
Luis Felipe Fabre
Translated from Spanish by John Pluecker
Luis Felipe Fabre’s Sor Juana and Other Monsters, translated by John Pluecker, is one of those books whose title does not merely gesture toward literary history; it wrestles with it. Sor Juana enters not as a museum figure but as one of the presences through which monstrosity, devotion, intellect, sexuality, and colonial inheritance can be reanimated. Fabre’s poetry often feels at ease with performance, argument, irreverence, and camp intelligence, and this book seems built for readers who want tradition made unstable again. Pluecker’s translation has to carry the sharpness of that performance into English without dulling the theological and bodily comedy beneath it. I would read this as a fierce, playful, learned book about what happens when the canon refuses to stay dead or decorous.
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Spanish
- Country
- Mexico
- ISBN
- 9781937027766