... This chapter addresses the identity of the mysterious narrator of Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. It traces Yunior de las Casas’s artistic coming of age, his Künstlerroman, arguing that what emerges in his narrative is an aesthetics of artistic consumption, which reflects Díaz’s...

... intellectual Yunior de las Casas’s laughter of dominance opens the book, Oscar de León’s more tempered and textured laughter as he is being abused ends it. The chapter’s examination of laughter reveals the contrapuntal interplay between oppressors and oppressed and traces a trajectory for a Latino/a literature...

... associated with immigration: loss of a physical home, loss of family, loss of language. His principal narrator, Yunior de las Casas, illustrates the psychocultural migration intrinsic to people who are stuck in a narrative of loss. The stories in Drown are striking examples of contemporary Dominican...

... concludes by focusing on Yunior’s fulsome search for decolonial love in “The Cheater’s Guide to Love.” The chapter reads Díaz’s texts as extended exercises in dissident antihomophobic inquiry and racial hermeneutics, which have important implications for theories about the coloniality of power and gender...

... Drown’s effectiveness as what the chapter terms a narrative of loss. Díaz’s text grapples with the immediate, measurable losses associated with immigration: loss of a physical home, loss of family, loss of language. His principal narrator, Yunior de las Casas, illustrates the psychocultural migration...

... In This Is How You Lose Her , Díaz focuses on themes of intimacy and love. In the book, love is fraught, deceiving, and illusive—as demonstrated in stories ranging from the sexual exploits of Yunior’s brother to his father’s extramarital affair—and love is a sentiment that is socially...

... on Yunior’s fulsome search for decolonial love in “The Cheater’s Guide to Love.” The chapter reads Díaz’s texts as extended exercises in dissident antihomophobic inquiry and racial hermeneutics, which have important implications for theories about the coloniality of power and gender, identity, sexuality...

... laughter of the oppressed. Although hyper intellectual Yunior de las Casas’s laughter of dominance opens the book, Oscar de León’s more tempered and textured laughter as he is being abused ends it. The chapter’s examination of laughter reveals the contrapuntal interplay between oppressors and oppressed...