Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination

Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, José David Saldívar (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6033-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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 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

Zusatzinfo	2 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-6033-0 / 0822360330
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-6033-9 / 9780822360339
Zustand	Neuware