SexViolHist Bib: Cases: Real Cases: Sexual Assaults by Junot Díaz

»In May 2018, the author Zinzi Clemmons publicly confronted Díaz, alleging that he had once forcibly cornered and kissed her. Other women, including the writers Carmen Maria Machado and Monica Byrne, responded on Twitter with their own accounts of verbal abuse by Díaz. The author Alisa Valdes wrote a blog post alleging "misogynistic abuse" on the part of Díaz some years prior; she said that she had been rebuked for attacking a fellow Latino author when she had called attention to Díaz's behavior in the past.
Literary and feminist circles were divided between supporters of Díaz and his accusers. The issue of how sexual-harassment claims might be handled differently depending on the race or ethnicity of the accused provoked particular controversy. Several weeks before Clemmons made her allegations,Díaz had published an essay in The New Yorker, recounting his own experience of being raped at the age of eight, along with its effect on his later life and relationships. He addressed the essay to a reader who had once asked him if he had been abused, writing that the childhood abuse he experienced led him to hurt others in later life. While the essay was widely praised as honest and courageous, others accused Díaz of trying to defuse allegations about his own behavior.« -- More information: Wikipedia

G e n e r a l K e y w o r d s

Chronological Index: Modern History: 21^st Century | Geographical Index: American History: U.S. History | Topical Index: Cases: Real Victims: Junot Díaz; Types: General: Sexual Assault

B i b l i o g r a p h y

I. Author Index

[Info] Short, Ann M.A. »Reading Junot Díaz after Me Too and #MeToo.« #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. New York 2021: 211-221.

II. Speaker Index