Caribbeanness as a Global Phenomenon-Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, and Cristina Garcia

In their fictional works, the Caribbean diaspora writers Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, and Cristina Garcia, who live and write in the United States, grapple with the continuing impact that coloniality, the ideology behind colonialism, has in the Caribbean. In dialogue with Caribbean theory and Walter Mignolo's border thinking, this study examines how texts by Diaz, Danticat, and Garcia render coloniality visible and how they offer strategies of plurality and border crossings as a means of liberation and epistemic decolonialization, contesting absolute and universal positions of power. This book demonstrates that Caribbean and Western knowledge systems can be read in dialogue, which yields new strategies for solving complex problems such as intercultural conflicts and asymmetric power relations. In its potential application to other contexts, Caribbeanness gains global relevance.