Jennifer Harford Vargas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3672216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Harford Vargas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Harford |
| FAMILY NAME | Vargas |
| SIGNATURE | VARGAS J H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bryn Mawr College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations
The Fall of the Patriarchs
This chapter examines the figure of the patriarch as dictator, analyzing how Cristina García’s King of Cuba interrogates the two main characters’ heteropatriarchal and hypermasculinist hero narratives. They are depicted as foil characters whose many similar character traits foil their imaginations of themselves as polar opposites and reveals their similar investments in the regime of heteropatriarchy; at the same time, the novel foils both charac…
Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel
An intraethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, this book examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new subgenre of Latina/o fiction that the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os’ central contributions to the literary history of the dictatorship nove…
Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination
The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Diaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Diaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significant shift i…
Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) plays on the tensions between the two definitions of dictate: on the one hand, to order or command authoritatively and absolutely and, on the other hand, to speak aloud words that are to be written down or transcribed. This article argues that the novel’s narrative techniques and formal structures dictate, or tell, a story against dictatorship, analyzing how the novel manipulates the …
Novel Testimony: Alternative Archives in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
Novel TestimonyAlternative Archives in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones Jennifer Harford Vargas (bio) In the famous and haunting scene at the center of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Gabriel García Márquez re-imagines the 1928 United Fruit Company Massacre in Ciénaga, Colombia, from the perspective of the fictional character José Arcadio Segundo Buendía. Having miraculously survived the massacre of the banana company workers, José A…
Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) plays on the tensions between the two definitions of dictate: on the one hand, to order or command authoritatively and absolutely and, on the other hand, to speak aloud words that are to be written down or transcribed. This article argues that the novel’s narrative techniques and formal structures dictate, or tell, a story against dictatorship, analyzing how the novel manipulates the …
Dictating a Zafa: The Power of Narrative Form in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) plays on the tensions between the two definitions of dictate: on the one hand, to order or command authoritatively and absolutely and, on the other hand, to speak aloud words that are to be written down or transcribed. This article argues that the novel’s narrative techniques and formal structures dictate, or tell, a story against dictatorship, analyzing how the novel manipulates the …
Novel Testimony: Alternative Archives in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
Novel TestimonyAlternative Archives in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones Jennifer Harford Vargas (bio) In the famous and haunting scene at the center of One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), Gabriel García Márquez re-imagines the 1928 United Fruit Company Massacre in Ciénaga, Colombia, from the perspective of the fictional character José Arcadio Segundo Buendía. Having miraculously survived the massacre of the banana company workers, José A…
Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination
The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Diaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Diaz's decolonial imagination and his radically re-envisioned world, the contributors show how his aesthetic and activist practice reflect a significant shift i…
The Fall of the Patriarchs
This chapter examines the figure of the patriarch as dictator, analyzing how Cristina García’s King of Cuba interrogates the two main characters’ heteropatriarchal and hypermasculinist hero narratives. They are depicted as foil characters whose many similar character traits foil their imaginations of themselves as polar opposites and reveals their similar investments in the regime of heteropatriarchy; at the same time, the novel foils both charac…
Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel
An intraethnic study of Latina/o fiction written in the United States from the early 1990s to the present, this book examines novels that depict the historical reality of dictatorship and exploit dictatorship as a literary trope. This literature constitutes a new subgenre of Latina/o fiction that the author calls the Latina/o dictatorship novel. The book illuminates Latina/os’ central contributions to the literary history of the dictatorship nove…
Reimagining US Colombianidades: Transnational subjectivities, cultural expressions, and political contestations
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works)