Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374763
• Artikelnr.: 54686078

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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