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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hanna, Monica, editor.

Harford Vargas, Jennifer, 1980- editor.

Saldívar, José David, editor.

Heyne Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Díaz, Junot, 1968---Criticism and interpretation.

Díaz, Junot.

Díaz, Junot, 1968-.

Decolonization in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Local Subjects:

Díaz, Junot, 1968-.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 437 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.

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 reenvisioned world, the contributors show how Díaz's 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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

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

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 Carpio

"A planetary warning" : the multilayered Caribbean zombie in "Monstro" / Sarah Quesada

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Heyne Memorial Fund .

ISBN:

9780822360247

0822360241

9780822360339

0822360330

OCLC:

908374950