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Doom Patterns
- Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence
Engelsk Paperback
Doom Patterns
- Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence
Engelsk Paperback

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In Doom Patterns, Maia Gil’Adí takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders and shows the vital role of historical trauma in its formation. Her analysis moves beyond reparative modes of reading to consider how literary representations of violence, destruction, and pain also elicit pleasurable affective and aesthetic experiences. Gil’Adí theorizes the paradox of pleasurable violence through the notion of doom patterns—narrative devices that include thematic repetition, nonlinear narration, character fragmentation, and unresolved plots. Doom patterns return the reader to instances of historical violence and destruction, revealing them as excessive and otherworldly processes that require the tropes of speculative fiction. Examining novels by established Latinx authors such as Junot Díaz and Cristina García as well as multiethnic writers such as Colson Whitehead and Sesshu Foster, Gil’Adí challenges definitions of what constitutes Latinx literature and notions of the speculative by dismantling generic boundaries and entrenched definitions of race, ethnicity, and nationhood. In so doing, she allows for a more capacious consideration of the speculative, realism, history, and the role of violence in literature.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
280
ISBN-13:
9781478031208
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1478031204
Udg. Dato:
7 jan 2025
Længde:
17mm
Bredde:
229mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
Duke University Press
Oplagsdato:
7 jan 2025
Forfatter(e):
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