Hanna / Harford Vargas / Saldívar Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7476-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

This interdisciplinary collection considers how Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz's aesthetic and activist practice reflect an unprecedented maturation of a shift in American letters toward a hemispheric and planetary culture. Career spanning, the essays examine the intersections of race, Afro-Latinidad, gender, sexuality, disability, poverty, and power in Díaz's work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanna, Monica

Harford Vargas, Jennifer

Saldívar, José David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Editors' Introduction. Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination: From Island to Empire / Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and José David Saldívar 1

Part I. Activist Aesthetics

1. Against the "Discursive Latino": On the Politics and Praxis of Junot Díaz's Latinidad / Arlene Dávila 33

2. The Decolonizer's Guide to Disability / Julie Avril Minich 49

3. Laughing through a Broken Mouth in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Lyn Di Iorio 69

4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cannibalist: Reading Yunior (Writing) in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Monica Hanna 89

Part II. Mapping Literary Geographies

5. Artistry, Ancestry, and Americanness in the Works of Junot Díaz / Silvio Torres-Saillant 115

6. This Is How You Lose it: Navigating Dominicanidad in Junot Díaz's Drown / Ylce Irizarry 147

7. Latino/a Deracination and the New Latin American Novel / Claudia Milian 173

8. Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form as Ruin-Reading / Jennifer Harford Vargas 201

Part III. Doing Race in Spanglish

9. Dismantling the Master's House: The Decolonial Literary Imaginations of Audre Lorde and Junot Díaz / Paula M. L. Moya 231

10. Now Check It: Junot Díaz's Wondrous Spanglish / Glenda R. Carpio 257

11. A Planetary Warning?: The Multilayered Caribbean Zombie in "Monstro" / Sarah Quesada 291

Part IV. Desiring Decolonization

12. Junot Díaz's Search for Decolonial Aesthetics and Love / José David Saldívar 321

13. Sucia Love: Losing, Lying, and Leaving in Junot Díaz's This Is How You Lose Her / Deborah R. Vargas 351

14. "Christe Apocalyptus": Prospero in the Caribbean and the Art of Power / Ramón Saldívar 377

15. The Search for Decolonial Love: A Conversation between Junot Díaz and Paula M. L. Moya 391

Bibliography 403

Contributors 425

Index 431

Über Autor(innen)

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.