Junot Díaz and the decolonial imagination
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Junot Díaz and the decolonial imagination
Duke University Press, 2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-424) and index
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The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Diaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Diaz'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 Diaz'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 Diaz'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 Diaz.
Contributors: Glenda R. Carpio, Arlene Davila, Lyn Di Iorio, Junot Diaz, Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, Ylce Irizarry, Claudia Milian, Julie Avril Minich, Paula M. L. Moya, Sarah Quesada, Jose David Saldivar, Ramon Saldivar, Silvio Torres-Saillant, Deborah R. Vargas
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Editors' Introduction. Junot Diaz and the Decolonial Imagination: From Island to Empire / Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and Jose David Saldivar 1
Part I. Activist Aesthetics
1. Against the "Discursive Latino": On the Politics and Praxis of Junot Diaz's Latinidad / Arlene Davila 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 Diaz / Silvio Torres-Saillant 115
6. This Is How You Lose it: Navigating Dominicanidad in Junot Diaz'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 Diaz / Paula M. L. Moya 231
10. Now Check It: Junot Diaz'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 Diaz's Search for Decolonial Aesthetics and Love / Jose David Saldivar 321
13. Sucia Love: Losing, Lying, and Leaving in Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her / Deborah R. Vargas 351
14. "Christe Apocalyptus": Prospero in the Caribbean and the Art of Power / Ramon Saldivar 377
15. The Search for Decolonial Love: A Conversation between Junot Diaz and Paula M. L. Moya 391
Bibliography 403
Contributors 425
Index 431
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