{"product_id":"junot-d237az-and-the-decolonial-imagination-9780822360339","title":"Junot D237az and the Decolonial Imagination","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essential reading for casual readers as well as students and scholars of Junot Díaz's literary production.\" -- Marisel Moreno * Modern Fiction Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Editors' Introduction. Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination: From Island to Empire \/ Monica Hanna, Jennifer Harford Vargas, and José David Saldívar  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Activist Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Against the \"Discursive Latino\": On the Politics and Praxis of Junot Díaz's Latinidad \/ Arlene Dávila  33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Decolonizer's Guide to Disability \/ Julie Avril Minich  49\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Laughing through a Broken Mouth in \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Lyn Di Iorio  69\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cannibalist: Reading Yunior (Writing) in \u003ci\u003eThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Monica Hanna  89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Mapping Literary Geographies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Artistry, Ancestry, and Americanness in the Works of Junot Díaz \/ Silvio Torres-Saillant  115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. This Is How You Lose it: Navigating Dominicanidad in Junot Díaz's \u003ci\u003eDrown\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Ylce Irizarry  147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. Latino\/a Deracination and the New Latin American Novel \/ Claudia Milian  173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form as Ruin-Reading \/ Jennifer Harford Vargas  201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Doing Race in Spanglish\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9. Dismantling the Master's House: The Decolonial Literary Imaginations of Audre Lorde and Junot Díaz \/ Paula M. L. Moya  231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10. Now Check It: Junot Díaz's Wondrous Spanglish \/ Glenda R. Carpio  257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11. A Planetary Warning?: The Multilayered Caribbean Zombie in \"Monstro\" \/ Sarah Quesada  291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Desiring Decolonization\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12. Junot Díaz's Search for Decolonial Aesthetics and Love \/ José David Saldívar  321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 13. Sucia Love: Losing, Lying, and Leaving in Junot Díaz's \u003ci\u003eThis Is How You Lose Her\u003c\/i\u003e \/ Deborah R. Vargas  351\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. \"Christe Apocalyptus\": Prospero in the Caribbean and the Art of Power \/ Ramón Saldívar  377\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Search for Decolonial Love: A Conversation between Junot Díaz and Paula M. L. Moya  391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  403\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  431","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406092378455,"sku":"9780822360339","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822360339.jpg?v=1730494498","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/junot-d237az-and-the-decolonial-imagination-9780822360339","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}