Junot Díaz : on the half-life of love / José David Saldívar.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022Description: xxi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 237 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Junot DíazDDC classification:
  • 813/.54 23/eng/20220225
LOC classification:
  • 118 PQ 7409  D542S 2022
Other classification:
  • LIT004050 | SOC044000
Contents:
"Wrestling with J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings," or, How Junot Díaz thinks about coloniality, power, and the speculative genres -- Planet MFA's "Negocios" -- Planet people of color's Drown -- Becoming "Oscar Wao" -- Junot Díaz's search for decolonial love -- Conclusion and coda: "Monstro" and Islandborn.
Summary: "José David Saldivar's Junot Díaz is a literary study that takes a prismatic approach to the works and life of the Afro-Latino artist. Saldivar carefully traces the various themes and life events that influenced Díaz's writing-from childhood trauma to immigrant life to unusual writing processes. While this project is invested in telling the story of Díaz as a writer, an intellectual, and an activist, it is also a long reading of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Because of its monumental impact on the course of US Latinx literature and new way of envisioning the decolonial world, Saldivar takes this novel as the heart of Díaz's oeuvre. Saldivar highlights the novel's germination, its connections with other critiques of colonialism, and its importance to understanding Díaz's fiction more generally"-- Provided by publisher.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 118 PQ 7409 D542S 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000174166

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Wrestling with J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings," or, How Junot Díaz thinks about coloniality, power, and the speculative genres -- Planet MFA's "Negocios" -- Planet people of color's Drown -- Becoming "Oscar Wao" -- Junot Díaz's search for decolonial love -- Conclusion and coda: "Monstro" and Islandborn.

"José David Saldivar's Junot Díaz is a literary study that takes a prismatic approach to the works and life of the Afro-Latino artist. Saldivar carefully traces the various themes and life events that influenced Díaz's writing-from childhood trauma to immigrant life to unusual writing processes. While this project is invested in telling the story of Díaz as a writer, an intellectual, and an activist, it is also a long reading of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Because of its monumental impact on the course of US Latinx literature and new way of envisioning the decolonial world, Saldivar takes this novel as the heart of Díaz's oeuvre. Saldivar highlights the novel's germination, its connections with other critiques of colonialism, and its importance to understanding Díaz's fiction more generally"-- Provided by publisher.

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