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Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination
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2016
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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.
Author / Editor information
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.
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.
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"Essential reading for casual readers as well as students and scholars of Junot Díaz's literary production."
-- Marisel Moreno Modern Fiction Studies
"A groundbreaking publication which unpacks the levels of complexity of Díaz’s writing and paves the way for future lines of inquiry into his work."
-- Laura Gallon Textual Practice
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction. Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination From Island to Empire
1 - Part I. Activist Aesthetics
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1. Against the “Discursive Latino”
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2. The Decolonizer’s Guide to Disability
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3. Laughing through a Broken Mouth in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cannibalist
89 - Part II. Mapping Literary Geographies
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5. Artistry, Ancestry, and Americanness in the Works of Junot Díaz
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6. This Is How You Lose It
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7. Latino/a Deracination and the New Latin American Novel
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8. Dictating a Zafa
201 - Part III. Doing Race in Spanglish
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9. Dismantling the Master’s House
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10. Now Check It
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11. A Planetary Warning?
291 - Part IV. Desiring Decolonization
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12. Junot Díaz’s Search for Decolonial Aesthetics and Love
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13. Sucia Love
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14. “Chiste Apocalyptus”
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15. The Search for Decolonial Love
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Bibliography
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Contributors
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Index
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December 17, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9780822374763
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448
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2 illustrations
eBook ISBN:
9780822374763
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Professional and scholarly;
