The Dominican Diaspora Strikes Back: Cultural Archive and Race in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Abstract

While scholars of African diasporic discourse such as Paul Gilroy and Stuart Hall have tended to focus on the historical and social relationships between Africa, the Anglophonic Caribbean, and Britain, much work still needs to be done by incorporating the Spanish Caribbean and its diaspora in the United States into the critical conversations of the triangular African/Black Atlantic. 1 Silvio Torres-Saillant, the prominent scholar of the Dominican diaspora, has contributed much critical and historical groundwork for understanding the connection between racial discourse and literature of the Dominican Republic and Dominican immigrants and their descendents, the diaspora, who arrived in waves, due to economic hardships, to the mainland United States in the 1970s and onward. 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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