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Título
From Locus Classicus to Locus Lumpen: Junot Díaz’s “Aurora”
Autor(es)
Palabras clave
Literature
Díaz, Junot. Aurora
Lugares
Violencia
Drown
Place
Violence
Fecha de publicación
2016-04-07
Editor
Indiana University (Bloomington, Estados Unidos)
Citación
Manzanas Calvo, A.M. (2016). From Locus Classicus to Locus Lumpen: Junot Díaz’s “Aurora”. Journal of Modern Literature, 39 (2). DOI 10.2979/jmodelite.39.2.03
Resumen
[EN]In “Aurora,” a short story published in his 1996 collection Drown, Junot Díaz transforms the mythical character into a contemporary woman. Aurora abandons the unspecified space of myth and is relocated to the barrio. She becomes a drug addict who, like the goddess who salutes the new day, is homeless. She has no permanent home in the barrio, aside from the apartments she and Lucero, the narrator, break into, the juvie [Juvenile Detention] and the Hacienda. In the midst of these non-places, Aurora can only authorize herself through her art, the small-scale dawns she leaves on the walls of the apartments she occupies, and the violent lines she scratches on Lucero. In downgrading and relocating the goddess, Díaz barrioizes high literature and carves this violent clash of cultures and languages on the parchment of American literature.
URI
ISSN
0022-281X
DOI
10.2979/jmodelite.39.2.03
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