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Nicole Cecilia Delgado I adjacent islands/islas adyacentes i Translated from the Spanish by Urayoán Noel (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023) Nicole Cecilia Delgado's I adjacent islands i is comprised of two previously published collections, both artists' books, I amoná i (2013) and I subtropical dry i (2016). In other words, Delgado renders the islands of Mona and Vieques as adjacent and, in doing so, considers what it means to have a politics of being adjacent, of being alongside, one another. The guards on Mona enforce the US's colonization of the Puerto Rican archipelago, thus showing how a politics of adjacency is the antidote to a politics of complicity. [Extracted from the article] |
