Ruth McHugh-Dillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 6358159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth McHugh-Dillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | McHugh-Dillon |
| SIGNATURE | MCHUGH-DILLON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2682-6735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Let Me Confess”: Confession, Complicity, and #MeToo in Junot Díaz's This is How You Lose Her and “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma”
Confession plays a crucial yet ambivalent role in Junot Díaz’s fiction and paratexts. While scholarship has emphasized confession as a powerful means of witnessing male misbehavior, the #MeToo era urges readers to question who or what, beyond mere representation, confession serves. I suggest that protagonist Yunior’s compulsive confessions of lying, cheating and womanizing in This is How You Lose Her (2012) expose how his sense of self is split b…
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Let Me Confess”: Confession, Complicity, and #MeToo in Junot Díaz's This is How You Lose Her and “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma”
Confession plays a crucial yet ambivalent role in Junot Díaz’s fiction and paratexts. While scholarship has emphasized confession as a powerful means of witnessing male misbehavior, the #MeToo era urges readers to question who or what, beyond mere representation, confession serves. I suggest that protagonist Yunior’s compulsive confessions of lying, cheating and womanizing in This is How You Lose Her (2012) expose how his sense of self is split b…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Complicity (1 works) · Confession (law (1 works) · Confessional (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Immorality (1 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (1 works) · Latin American Literature Studies (1 works) · Law (1 works)