{"id":3287,"date":"2024-02-12T18:13:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T23:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=3287"},"modified":"2024-03-03T12:57:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T17:57:12","slug":"lecture-thinking-from-the-hole-latinidad-on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/laclxs\/event\/lecture-thinking-from-the-hole-latinidad-on-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Maia Gil’Ad\u00ed: Thinking from the Hole \u2013 Latinidad on the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures <\/strong>are pleased to welcome Maia Gil’Ad\u00ed<\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Latinx and Multiethnic Literature at Boston University, for the lecture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking from the Hole: Latinidad<\/em> on the Edge<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on her current book project, Maia Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed examines representations of violence\u2014from the sweeping scale of global imperialism to the close intimacy of domestic violence\u2014in Latinx literature. Putting portrayals of destruction and pain in prose fiction into conversation with aesthetic pleasure, she argues that these two figurations collaborate in the cultural production of Latinx literature and latinidad<\/em>. To bring these two ostensibly incongruous fields of narrative production into rapprochement, she advances a Latinx speculative reading practice that illuminates elements in the texts that seemingly lay hidden, reveals the excessive in what passes as mundane, and underscores the ongoing nature of imperial, racial, and ethno-national violence. Turning to works by Junot D\u00edaz and Hernan Diaz, Gil\u2019Ad\u00ed shows how formal elements in the text consistently return readers to moments of destruction and ultimately reveal the speculative nature of latinidad<\/em> itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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