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"Equal Partners in Crime": Narration in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
<p>This reading of Junot Díaz’s <em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</em> argues that narrator Yunior’s failure to capture the authentic speech of Beli illuminates the failure of narrative generally to speak authentically for the subaltern. The writings of Mikhail Bakhtin, Gayatri Spivak, and …
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Towards a trans-Caribbean poetics: A new aesthetic of power and resistance
… Republic), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti) and Junot Díaz (The Dominican Republic) share thematic and biographical similarities and reveal an emerging aesthetic with definite textual and thematic traits that I identify as Trans-Caribbean, a poetics with four main constitutive aspects. First, it …