Abstract
As exemplified by Junot Diaz in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Angie Cruz in Let It Rain Coffee, Dominican diaspora authors grapple with the question of what happens when a central part of a people’s lived experience and embodiment is suppressed by hegemonic national discourses. I argue that in their novels they show that, when blackness is removed from Dominican national discourse and representation, what is left is not whiteness or mestizaje, but a “deracialized consciousness.” These authors subvert racial discourse by using the family-nation allegory in foundational romances in unintended ways, emptying the discourse of its rhetorical value, and make way for “rayano consciousness” and a queer futurity of dominicanidad.
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