Broken Men: The Failures of Machismo in Junot Diaz
- UNCA Author/Contributor (non-UNCA co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Alejandro Soto (Creator)
- Institution
- University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA )
- Web Site: http://library.unca.edu/
- Advisor
- Anne Jansen
Abstract: In this paper, the author interrogates the troubling effects of immigration on Diaz’s model of machismo and how both men and women react as victims. Hyper-masculine histories infiltrate everyday life for Latino people in Diaz’s work, and by exploring these interrelated short stories that illustrate the toxic effects of traditional macho identity, the author offers a critique to the macho script that complicates the process of immigration for Latinos in a social and familial platform.
Broken Men: The Failures of Machismo in Junot Diaz
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Other
- Language: English
- Date: 2016
- Keywords
- machismo, immigration, Latino, Junot Diaz