Creolizing the Canon: Manuel Puig, Junot Díaz, and the Latino Poetics of Relation.
The article focuses on the relationship between Spanish American and Latino literatures. It is noted that author Junot Díaz by creolizing Manuel Puig's pop art aesthetic has shown the complicated relationship that exists between Spanish American and Latino literatures. The author portrays Latino lit...
| Published in: | Comparatist Vol. 43; pp. 173 - 194 |
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University of North Carolina Press
Oct2019
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| Summary: | The article focuses on the relationship between Spanish American and Latino literatures. It is noted that author Junot Díaz by creolizing Manuel Puig's pop art aesthetic has shown the complicated relationship that exists between Spanish American and Latino literatures. The author portrays Latino literature as a form of writing that draws from the U.S., Caribbean, and Latin American literatures and cultures, which challenges the existence of all three as discrete categories. |
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