RT Journal Article
T1 Black Disability and Diasporic Haunting in Diana Evan's The Wonder
A1 Cuder Domínguez, María Pilar
AB This essay draws from current insights in postcolonial and disability studies toexplore the representation of Black mental disability in Diana Evans’s The Wonder as a way toaccess diasporic experiences of loss, suffering, trauma, and unrooting. It analyzes Evans’sinnovative approach to describing three generations of a Black family through the joint lens ofdisability and diasporic haunting. Tracing the connection between mental imbalance andcreativity in Antoney and examining representations of living with loss that are gender-alignedin each generation, the essay argues that Antoney’s ghost performs both an aesthetic and anarrative function, insofar as his disability signposts larger, ongoing erasures of Black art fromthe national imaginary. The essay explicates how haunting is not only a vehicle of transformativerecognition for Antoney’s son but also deeply connected to current social processes ofexclusion/inclusion that result in similar processes of remembering/forgetting at the wider levelof cultural memory.
PB Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature
SN 0732-7730 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22929
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22929
LA eng
NO Cuder-Domínguez, P. (2022). Black Disability and Diasporic Haunting in Diana Evans’s The Wonder. In Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature (Vol. 41, Issue 2, pp. 247–266). Project MUSE. https://doi.org/10.1353/tsw.2022.0019
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 31 may 2026