Research Catalog

Title

Junot Díaz and the decolonial imagination / Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and José David Saldívar, editors.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hanna, Monica
• Harford Vargas, Jennifer, 1980-
• Saldívar, José David

Description

viii, 437 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"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"--Publisher's description.

Subject

• Díaz, Junot, 1968- > Criticism and interpretation
• Díaz, Junot, 1968-
• Decolonization in literature
• Gender identity in literature
• Dominican American authors > 20th century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Junot Díaz and the decolonial imagination : from island to empire / Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and José David Saldívar -- Activist Aesthetics. Against the "discursive Latino" : on the politics and praxis of Junot Díaz's Latinidad / Arlene Dávila -- The decolonizer's guide to disability / Julie Avril Minich -- Laughing through a broken mouth in The brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Lyn Di Iorio -- A portrait of the artist as a young cannibalist : reading Yunior (writing) in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao / Monica Hanna -- Mapping Literary Geographies. Artistry, ancestry, and Americanness in the works of Junot Díaz / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- This is how you lose it : navigating dominicanidad in Junot Díaz's Drown / Ylce Irizarry -- Latino/a deracination and the new Latin American novel / Claudia Milian -- Dictating a Zafa : the power of narrative form as ruin-reading / Jennifer Harford Vargas -- Doing Race in Spanish. Dismantling the master's house : the decolonial literary imaginations of Audre Lorde and Junot Díaz / Paula M.L. Moya -- Now check it : Junot Díaz's Wondrous Spanglish / Glenda R. Carpio -- A planetary warning? : the multilayered Caribbean zombie in "Monstro" / Sarah Quesada -- Desiring Decolonization. Junot Díaz's search for decolonial aesthetics and love / José David Saldívar -- Sucia love : losing, lying, and leaving in Junot Díaz's This Is How You Lose Her? / Deborah R. Vargas -- "Chiste Apocalyptus" : Prospero in the Caribbean and the art of power / Ramón Saldívar -- The search for decolonial love : a conversation between Junot Díaz and Paula M.L. Moya.

Call Number

Sc E 18-939

ISBN

• 9780822360247
• 0822360241
• 9780822360339
• 0822360330

LCCN

2015026284

OCLC

908374950

Title

Junot Díaz and the decolonial imagination / Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and José David Saldívar, editors.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hanna, Monica, editor.

Harford Vargas, Jennifer, 1980- editor.

Saldívar, José David, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-939