... The introduction theorizes Junot Díaz’s decolonial imagination, arguing that Díaz employs the creative faculty of the imagination to envision a radically different world, a world not structured through dominance but through solidarity. The introduction gives a biographical account of Díaz’s...

... This chapter examines aesthetics, dispossession, trauma, and decolonial love in Díaz’s fiction. It theorizes a footnote from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao that critically reflects on Oscar’s spectacularly closeted reading of science fiction and fantasy books and the effects Oscar’s...

...The Decolonial Option ...

... In context of the Algerian Revolution, Fanon transposed this decolonized dialectic from racial to national identity. Setting out from his famous description of the colonial world as fundamentally Manichaean and divided, he formulates a decolonial violence capable of appropriating colonial...

... civilization, modern European philosophy, and the modern European sciences. It also calls for and provides key elements for understanding decoloniality as a transmodern project and as a turn in theory, philosophy, and critique. This includes the production of decolonial knowledge formations, such as what were...