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  title info:
    title: Doom patterns
    sub title: Latinx speculations and the aesthetics of violence
  name:
    name part: Gil'Adí, Maia
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ncu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 265 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Maia Gil'Adí.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Speculative fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Speculative fiction, American
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    topic: Hispanic American authors
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Latin American fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Violence in literature
  subject:
    topic: Latin Americans
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    topic: Hispanic Americans
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
  classification: PN3448.S64 G54 2025
  classification: 813/.08762
  identifier: 9781478031208
  identifier: 1478031204
  identifier: 9781478026983
  identifier: 1478026987
  identifier: 9781478060185
  identifier: 2024017811
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240701
    record change date: 20250305153404.3
    record identifier: in00005618627