Less 9/11 Is More 9/11: the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and A Day a Night and a Day

• Autores: Alberto S. Galindo
• Localización: Cultura, lenguaje y representación = Culture, language and representation: revista de estudios culturales de la Universitat Jaume I = cultural studies journal of Universitat Jaume I, ISSN 1697-7750, Nº. 9, 2011, págs. 81-97
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.6035/clr.2011.9.4
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  • español

    Este ensayo presenta las novelas The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao del escritor dominicano Junot Díaz y A Day and a Night and a Day del británico Glen Duncan como textos de ficción influenciados por el peso cultural de los eventos del 11 de septiembre del 2001, aunque sin invocarlos directamente y por tanto convirtiéndolos en eventos casi inenarrables. Se explora la hipótesis de que ambas novelas pueden ser leídas como parte de la producción cultural del 11 de septiembre, no por invocar ese día en particular, sino por formar parte de las prácticas políticas y discursivas pos-11/septiembre.

  • English

    This essay brings together the novels The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by the Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz and A Day and a Night and a Day by the British writer Glen Duncan as fictional texts that are influenced by the cultural weight of the events of 9/11/2001 without necessarily invoking them directly: 9/11 becomes an almost unspeakable moment. This essay hypothesizes that these novels can be read as part of the cultural production tied to 9/11, not because these novels are about 9/11 per se, but because they are conditioned by the political and cultural discursive practices after 9/11.

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