Questions
1. How does it feel to have been in a dictatorship where you
needed to be fluent in silence, like Junot Diaz, in order to survive?
2. Why do radicals or protestors “slip back into the comfort
of their historical privileges?”
3. What was Junot’s suffering or survival like when leaving
Santo Domingo for New Jersey?
Observations
1. Junot Diaz has a strong connection with his African-Caribbean
ancestors and that is where he gets his strength to continue thriving.
2. Junot Diaz is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology and still maintains a fighting spirit by making people aware of
of social issues like he did on, “Radical Hope Is Our Best Weapon.”
3. I find it interesting that Junot Diaz writes fiction,
because like blackness’ survival, fiction also survives. Fiction never dies, because it can affect the
imagination in several different ways and it is different for every person.
My vision for radical hope would have to include a deep
connection with a problem that needs to be removed and a resiliency to keep
fighting until that problem is changed or removed.
Junot Diaz was fluent in silence and channeled his lack of
being able to speak out loud into writing.
Although, he is a successful writer, he still finds a way to talk about
the “genius of blackness.” He has not
forgotten where he came from in the Dominican Republic, because he gets his
strengths from the land that his ancestors struggled through and survived for
generations. He stands up for his
beliefs and is not afraid to express himself in public. Diaz is well connected to his African-Caribbean
ancestors and this spirit has contributed to his success.
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