Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

AvMonica Hanna,Jennifer Harford Vargas,José David Saldívar

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The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot DÍaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how DÍaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing DÍaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significant shift in American letters toward a hemispheric and planetary culture. They examine the intersections of race, Afro-Latinidad, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty, and power in DÍaz's work. Essays in the volume explore issues of narration, language, and humor in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the racialized constructions of gender and sexuality in Drown and This Is How You Lose Her, and the role of the zombie in the short story "Monstro." Collectively, they situate DÍaz’s writing in relation to American and Latin American literary practices and reveal the author’s activist investments. The volume concludes with Paula Moya's interview with DÍaz.Contributors: Glenda R. Carpio, Arlene DÁvila, Lyn Di Iorio, Junot DÍaz, Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, Ylce Irizarry, Claudia Milian, Julie Avril Minich, Paula M. L. Moya, Sarah Quesada, JosÉ David SaldÍvar, RamÓn SaldÍvar, Silvio Torres-Saillant, Deborah R. Vargas

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Utgivningsdatum2016-01-08
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor464
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822360339

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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