Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad

A compelling exploration of materiality and semiotics in Latinx inscriptions

Writers and artists from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Latinx New York operate under the pressures of inscription: the material and semiotic entanglement of making a mark as a marked artist. By employing layered material tropes and figures, such as stone, dust, viscera, and animality, their works do not represent a singular Latinx experience and instead, must be read at the margin of language and matter.

Matters of Inscrip...