Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence by Gil'ad?, Maia
Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence by Gil'ad?, Maia

Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence

In Doom Patterns, Maia Gil'Ad? takes up speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across...
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Author: Maia Gil'ad?
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Language: English
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Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence by Gil'ad?, Maia

Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence

$114.54
Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence by Gil'ad?, Maia

Doom Patterns: Latinx Speculations and the Aesthetics of Violence

$114.54
Author: Maia Gil'ad?
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
In Doom Patterns, Maia Gil'Ad? 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'Ad? 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 D?az and Cristina Garc?a as well as multiethnic writers such as Colson Whitehead and Sesshu Foster, Gil'Ad? 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.

Author: Maia Gil'ad?
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781478031208

About the Author
Maia Gil'Ad? is Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
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