3. Laughing through a Broken Mouth in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination From Island to Empire 1
5. Part I. Activist Aesthetics
6. 1. Against the “Discursive Latino” 33
7. 2. The Decolonizer’s Guide to Disability 49
8. 3. Laughing through a Broken Mouth in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 69
9. 4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cannibalist 89
10. Part II. Mapping Literary Geographies
11. 5. Artistry, Ancestry, and Americanness in the Works of Junot Díaz 115
12. 6. This Is How You Lose It 147
13. 7. Latino/a Deracination and the New Latin American Novel 173
14. 8. Dictating a Zafa 201
15. Part III. Doing Race in Spanglish
16. 9. Dismantling the Master’s House 231
17. 10. Now Check It 257
18. 11. A Planetary Warning? 291
19. Part IV. Desiring Decolonization
20. 12. Junot Díaz’s Search for Decolonial Aesthetics and Love 321
21. 13. Sucia Love 351
22. 14. “Chiste Apocalyptus” 377
23. 15. The Search for Decolonial Love 391
24. Bibliography 403
25. Contributors 425
26. Index 431