Making It Home: A New Ethics of Immigration in Dominican Literature
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2010
Keywords
Dominican Republic, Black Girl, White Girl, Puerto Rican Woman, Narrative Ethic
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107892_6
Abstract
Despite the media omnipresence of celebrities of Hispanic descent such as Reggaeton star Daddy Yankee, entertainer Jennifer Lopez, actress America Ferrera, and athlete Sammy Sosa, the ordinary people whom Spanish Caribbean writers depict remain a marginalized portion of U.S. society. This essay discusses how the contemporary immigration narratives of Dominic an American writer Junot Díaz are distinct not only from modernist European immigrant literatures that privilege acculturation but also from Spanish Caribbean exile narratives that privilege nostalgia. Díaz’s fiction theorizes Dominican migration and the migrants’ experiences of poverty, disillusion, and non-belonging in Latina/o America.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Making It Home: A New Ethics of Immigration in Dominican Literature, in V. P. Rosario (Ed.), Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration, Palgrave Macmillan, p. 89-103
Scholar Commons Citation
Irizarry, Ylce, "Making It Home: A New Ethics of Immigration in Dominican Literature" (2010). English Faculty Publications. 273.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/eng_facpub/273
