Tiffany Lucas’s cover art for A Huracán, an imagined retelling of The Tempest, plays with conventional expectations and understandings in both language and design in order to undermine the dominant narrative. By centering the Taíno word huracán, this books cover suggests an alternate narrative (how would Sycorax tell the story of The Tempest?), while also subtly reminding the audience of how the dominant narrative relies on—and erases—Taíno knowledge. While the ship on the front cover might conjure the ship that Prospero arranges to shipwreck at the beginning of The Tempest, the three crosses formed by the three masts also recall the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María. By forcing the audience to physically open the book to see the other half of the image, this project hints at the work that must be done to discover and tell stories outside the dominant (Prospero’s) narrative.
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