The question that both Joseph Conrad and Junot Diaz pose in their novels, “where did it all begin?” European Colonialism. A god. Wealth. The three factors that have pushed themselves into the New World and have snatched history, beliefs, and customs while destroying it along the way. The European dominance of Spain, England, and France has disrupted the natural progress of multiple countries within Latin America and Africa. The Dominican Republic has been pummeled first by European settlers and then occupied by the US for some time. “They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Taínos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles,” the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao begins with the history of Fuku. (8) The evil curse of the island, the supernatural element that dooms many in the
The question that both Joseph Conrad and Junot Diaz pose in their novels, “where did it all begin?” European Colonialism. A god. Wealth. The three factors that have pushed themselves into the New World and have snatched history, beliefs, and customs while destroying it along the way. The European dominance of Spain, England, and France has disrupted the natural progress of multiple countries within Latin America and Africa. The Dominican Republic has been pummeled first by European settlers and then occupied by the US for some time. “They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; that it was the death bane of the Taínos, uttered just as one world perished and another began; that it was a demon drawn into Creation through the nightmare door that was cracked open in the Antilles,” the Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao begins with the history of Fuku. (8) The evil curse of the island, the supernatural element that dooms many in the