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- Title: Dominican-American Writers: Hybridity and Ambivalence.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 264 KB
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Introduction Dominican immigration to the United States, and more specifically to New York City, should be considered within the context of the peripheral migration towards the hegemonic centers of the so-called First World. According to lain Chambers, migration, set in motion by modernization and the economic globalization, is currently reaching a magnitude and an intensity never before seen (1994, 5-6). The citizens of the Dominican Republic make up the fourth largest group of immigrants to the United States after Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans. In New York City, Dominicans constitute the second most-important group of Latinos after Puerto Ricans. Dominican immigration is relatively recent, compared to that of Puerto Ricans and Cubans. (1) The importance of Dominican immigration to the United States has mainly appeared in Dominican-American literature, where in one manner or another, the Dominican and/or Dominican-American cultural identity is represented. One of the objectives of this article is to analyze the hybridity of Dominican-American writers and the representations they construct from the cultures of their native and adopted countries. I propose as well that these writers have appropriated the hegemonic discourse that primitivizes the Other as a way of combating the anxiety, angst, and fear produced by hybridity. In this way, Dominican-American writers achieve recognition from the hegemonic subject and go on to form part of the American literary canon. I will concentrate on the novels How the Garcia Sisters Lost Their Accents and !Yo! by Julia Alvarez, Soledad by Angie Cruz and the collection of short stories Drown by Junot Diaz.