Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination

Monica Hanna is Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Fullerton.Jennifer Harford Vargas is Assistant Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College.JosÉ David SaldÍvar is Professor of Comparative Literature at Stanford University and the author of Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  viiEditors' Introduction. Junot DÍaz and the Decolonial Imagination: From Island to Empire / Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and JosÉ David SaldÍvar  1Part I. Activist Aesthetics1. Against the "Discursive Latino": On the Politics and Praxis of Junot DÍaz's Latinidad / Arlene DÁvila  332. The Decolonizer's Guide to Disability / Julie Avril Minich  493. Laughing through a Broken Mouth in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Lyn Di Iorio  694. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cannibalist: Reading Yunior (Writing) in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Monica Hanna  89Part II. Mapping Literary Geographies5. Artistry, Ancestry, and Americanness in the Works of Junot DÍaz / Silvio Torres-Saillant  1156. This Is How You Lose it: Navigating Dominicanidad in Junot DÍaz's Drown / Ylce Irizarry  1477. Latino/a Deracination and the New Latin American Novel / Claudia Milian  1738. Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form as Ruin-Reading / Jennifer Harford Vargas  201Part III. Doing Race in Spanglish9. Dismantling the Master's House: The Decolonial Literary Imaginations of Audre Lorde and Junot DÍaz / Paula M. L. Moya  23110. Now Check It: Junot DÍaz's Wondrous Spanglish / Glenda R. Carpio  25711. A Planetary Warning?: The Multilayered Caribbean Zombie in "Monstro" / Sarah Quesada  291Part IV. Desiring Decolonization12. Junot DÍaz's Search for Decolonial Aesthetics and Love / JosÉ David SaldÍvar  32113. Sucia Love: Losing, Lying, and Leaving in Junot DÍaz's This Is How You Lose Her / Deborah R. Vargas  35114. "Christe Apocalyptus": Prospero in the Caribbean and the Art of Power / RamÓn SaldÍvar  37715. The Search for Decolonial Love: A Conversation between Junot DÍaz and Paula M. L. Moya  391Bibliography  403Contributors  425Index  431

"Essential reading for casual readers as well as students and scholars of Junot DÍaz's literary production." - Marisel Moreno (Modern Fiction Studies) "A groundbreaking publication which unpacks the levels of complexity of DÍaz’s writing and paves the way for future lines of inquiry into his work." - Laura Gallon (Textual Practice)