How Long to Read Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 5 minutes to read Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature by Danny Méndez

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Establishing an interdisciplinary connection between Migration Studies, Post-Colonial Studies and Affect Theory, Méndez analyzes the symbolic interplay between emotions, cognitions, and displacement in the narratives written by and about Dominican and Dominican-Americans in the United States and Puerto Rico. He argues that given the historic place of creolization as a marker of national, cultural, and social development in the Caribbean and particularly the Dominican Republic, this cultural process is not magically annulled in Caribbean immigrations to the U.S. Instead, this book illustrates the numerous ways in which Dominicans’ subjective interpretation of their experiences of migration and incorporation into U.S. society, seen through the filter of multiple creolizations of the past, are woven into their written works as a series of variations on Americanness and Dominicanness. Through close readings of selected writings by Pedro Henríquez Ureña, José Luis González, Junot Díaz, Josefina Báez, Loida Maritza Pérez among others, Méndez argues that emotional creolizations operate as a psychological parameter on immigrant populations as they negotiate their transcultural status against the ideological norms of assimilation in their new host country. Consequently, he proposes that this emotional creolization is dialectical — that is, it not only affects diasporic populations, but also changes the norms and terms of assimilation as well.

How long is Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature?

Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature by Danny Méndez is 243 pages long, and a total of 61,479 words.

This makes it 82% the length of the average book. It also has 75% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 35 minutes to read Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature?

Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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