Document Type
Honors Project - Open Access
Abstract
In exploring Junot Díaz’s use of Spanglish, I propose that Díaz is driven by the anxiety of history—a phenomenon similar to the anxiety of influence, as articulated by Harold Bloom, but which focuses on the role of the Latino minority in this postmodern moment. I compare Díaz’s texts to Piri Thomas’s autobiography Down These Mean Streets, one of the original texts to utilize Spanglish, and Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed, a satirical novel about minority culture. Díaz’s vision of a future, Spanglish-speaking America is revealed to be the ultimate outcome of the anxiety of history’s influence on Díaz.
Recommended Citation
Shanesy, Kelsey A., "Anxiety de la historia: Understanding the Roots of Spanglish in the Texts of Junot Díaz" (2010). English Honors Projects. 16.
https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/english_honors/16
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