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“Neither Here Nor There.” The Experience of Borderless Nation in Contemporary Dominican-American Literature
“Neither Here Nor There.” The Experience of Borderless Nation in Contemporary Dominican-American Literature

Author(s): Karolina Majkowska
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Migration Studies, Theory of Literature, Politics and Identity
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Angie Cruz; Dominican-American literature; in-betweenness; Junot Díaz; Loida Maritza Pérez; neobaroque;

Summary/Abstract: Discussing migrant identities, critics very often focus on the state in-between, the state between the borders, or being neither here nor there, and a migrant group that seems to epitomize this in-between condition is the Dominican-Americans. Consequently, the article seeks to examine the experience of in-betweenness, of being suspended between the boundaries and borders of two countries in selected texts of contemporary Dominican-American writers: Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Waoand a short story “Monstro,” and Angie Cruz’s Soledad. It aims to analyze how the texts discuss the experience of in-betweenness through hybridity (for instance intertextuality and magical realism) with the use of tools offered by the neo-baroque esthetics.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 113-124
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English