The Ghosts of the Latinx Archive

Abstract

This article reads the work of two contemporary Latinx poets, Daniel Borzutzky and Rosa Alcalá, who focus their writings on the most fragile aspects of the diasporic Latinx experience: trauma, loss of language, and, more generally, things that resist formulation and articulation. Reading their work as an archive of what is suppressed, resisted by language, and erased renders a provocative interpretation of what we think of as the Latinx archive and, thus, Latinx identity.