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Latinx speculations and the aesthetics of violence
Doom Patterns takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders. If the contemporary reader often takes pleasure in the spectacular violence depicted in the Latinx novel, Maia Gil'Adí identifies that pleasure as the reader's desire to understand Latinx history in embodied, visceral terms. Across Latinx and Latin American novels-including Junot Díaz's The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties, and Roberto Bolaño's 2666-Gil'Adí maps "doom patterns," or narrative devices that continually return the reader to instances of destruction. Though doom patterns often describe the horrific destruction of colonization or the displacement of immigration in uncanny terms, they also have the potential to establish speculative "elsewheres" to these historical phenomenon. Doom Patterns powerfully highlights how reading ethnic literatures against the grain of upward mobility and assimilation can shed light on the continued workings of colonial violence in the present.
The reading protocols of Latinx speculative fiction -- Doom patterning the postcolony and the new Caribbean mythology -- Sweet apocalypse : sugar and monstrosity at the end of the world -- Approximation, horror, and the grotesque on the US-Mexico border -- Rekonkista : brownface, time travel, and cyberfascism in "Greater Mexico" -- Her body, our horror : self-abnegation; or, On silence, refusal, and becoming the un/self -- Thinking from the hole : Latinidad on the edge.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies