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376 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
because I was looking for an explanation to
. I found Diaz’s book quite entertaining but was confused as to why he would choose to present his art not fully translated. It is not just that it is partially written in Spanish, but Dominican slang, I am still puzzled by this...after reading Benitez-Rojo, I think I am starting to see a glimpse of clarity. Diaz’s work when viewed through the lens of The Repeating Island, could be read as an identity struggle in the Caribbean subconscious, with the yearning to belong, but where? Since not even our language is our own, the thing that forms subjective reality…