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Violence, Masculinity, and Upward Mobility in the Dominican Diaspora: Junot Díaz, the Media, and Drown
- Author(s):
- Jason Frydman (see profile)
- Date:
- 1998
- Group(s):
- CLCS Caribbean
- Subject(s):
- American literature, Twentieth century, Caribbean literature, Latin American literature, Seventeenth century, African diaspora, Literature, Dominican literature, Hispanic Americans, Masculinity
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- junot diaz, upward mobility, 20th-century American literature, 20th-century Caribbean literature, 20th-century Latin American literature, African diaspora literature, Latinx, Masculinity studies
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/15yz-3q38
- Abstract:
- The media reception of Drown frames Junot Díaz as a voice of the street that denounces the subjugating violence of internal US colonialism. However, Drown itself suggests that this extra-textual critique displaces the reader’s analytic gaze. The stories in the collection intimate that it is not oppressive socio-economic conditions that constitute the direct obstacle to upward mobility for the diasporic Dominican male subject. Instead, that subject’s own crisis of masculinity, caught between hyper- and hypo-masculinized models, produce the neurotic conditions that interrupt his upwardly mobile trajectory.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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