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Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence
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Duke University Press
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ISBN electronic:
978-1-4780-6018-5
Publication date:
2024
Book Chapter
Coda: Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad on the Edge
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Published:November 2024
The coda returns to the dissipation of ethno-racial markers in Latinx literature by considering Hernan Diaz’s novel In the Distance (2017) as a Latinx novel in disguise. Telling the story of a young Swedish immigrant who attempts to make his way to New York from California in the mid-nineteenth century, Diaz’s novel presents the American landscape as marked by otherworldly possibility and danger. Invested in reinvestigations of notions of “foreign/ness,” “citizenship,” and “nation,” In the Distance is imbued with a proto-Latinxness yet is seemingly removed from ascriptions to brownness. By “unbinding literature” from the parameters that govern the field, Díaz’s novel further positions latinidad as a speculative generic mode.
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