Whenever I hear Euro-centric academic discourses explain what is considered the ideal beauty, this image of Iris Chacón -as well as how the poems by Vizcarrondo, Guillén, Palés Matos, and other Caribbean writers represent their "mamasotas"- come to mind. Even among artists on the margins, their borders are determined by the constraints of their histories. Esthetics are not solely controlled in particular centers of power or by universal principles free of histories, but are shaped by specific contextual sensibilities and desires. The margins are defined by all types of forms, volumes, lines, "nalgas, tetas, pelos, remeneos"; have different kinds of, "valga la redundancia", margins.
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