A postmodern plátano’s Trujillo: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, more Macondo than McOndo more

Untitled Document http://www.antipodas.com.au/public_html/Antipodas%20XX.html Lopez-Calvo- B9 CONTENTS Introduction – Moving Stories: Trauma and the Migrating Trujillo Narrative Marta Caminero-Santangelo – At the Intersection of Trauma and Testimonio: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones Pamela J. Rader – What the River Knows: Productive Silences in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and “1937” Stephanie Scurto – The Language of Labour – the Labour of Language: Edwidge Danticat’s “Work” in The Farming of Bones Ana Gallego Cuiñas – La novela trujillista: la ficción al servicio del poder Ignacio López-Calvo – A Postmodern Plátano’s Trujillo: Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, more Macondo than McOndo Daynalí Flores-Rodríguez – Addressing the Fukú In Us: Junot Díaz and the New Novel of Dictatorship Sandra Cox – The Trujillato and Testimonial Fiction: Collective Memory, Cultural Trauma and National Identity in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao In this volume sixteen scholars from the USA, the Emily Robbins – Uncovering the Silent Crypts: Caribbean, Latin America, Europe and Australia Memory, Trauma and Testimony in Julia Alvarez’s In study some of the most significant narratives of trauma and testimonial novels about Rafael Leonidas the Time of the Butterflies Jessica Wells Cantiello – “Tell us!”: Before We Were Trujillo’s 31 years as dictator of the Dominican Free and Julia Alvarez’s Testimonial Cycle Republic. Combining theoretical insight with illuminating textual analysis, the articles demonstrate Trenton Hickman – The Trujillato as Desideratum in how writers as diverse as Mario Vargas Llosa, Julia Dominican-American Fiction Nereida Segura-Rico – Witnessing History: Alvarez, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Díaz, Freddy Metatestimonio in Literary Representations of the Prestol Castillo, Nelly Rosario, Angie Cruz and Trujillo Dictatorship Pedro Vergés use the “lies” of fiction to reveal fundamental “truths” about freedom, human dignity Marion Rohrleitner – Looming Prairies and Blooming Orchids:The Politics of Sex and Race in Nelly and individual sovereignty. Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints Lindsay Puente – Voicing the Nation: El Masacre se pasa a pie Shelly Jarrett Bromberg – Reconstructing Identity in the Wake of Trujillo: Pedro Vergés’ Sólo cenizas hallarás Ylce Irizarry – When Art Remembers: Museum Exhibits as Testimonio del Trujillato Roy C. Boland Osegueda – Urania Cabral y el testimonio de una mujer traumatizada en La fiesta del chivo 1 of 1 5/2/2010 12:55 PM Lopez-Calvo - B9