Dominican Republic · Literature
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz · 2007
Díaz threads the Trujillo dictatorship through fukú, a generational curse the narrator presents with the same matter-of-factness Carpentier grants Mackandal's transformations. The footnoted history of Hispaniola becomes inseparable from comic-book mythology, arguing that Caribbean trauma can only be metabolized through hybrid cosmologies the colonial archive cannot contain.