Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2020)

Unfaithful and Visible Translator in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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Yuanli Yin
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Yuanli Yin
Available Online 17 December 2020.
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10.2991/assehr.k.201215.505How to use a DOI?
Keywords
translator, blackness, Junot Diaz, race
Abstract

In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz’s role as a migrant bilingual writer has raised extensive discussion on multilingualism and transnationalism through his translingual writing. Meanwhile, his narrator Yunior disguises as an unfaithful and visible translator to conduct subtle manipulation on language, through which the issue of colonialism, race, blackness, whiteness is neatly weaved into this novel. This essay explores the potential for Yunior as a translator; it then looks to Yunior’s efforts on penetrating the superficial familial story to the Dominican Republican national trauma; his role as a translator also allows Yunior to discuss dreams and memory even blankness in the novel, which conveys much wordless critique on racism and colonialism.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2020)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
17 December 2020
ISBN
978-94-6239-304-2
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.201215.505How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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