| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
Díaz, Junot, 1968- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Díaz, Junot, 1968- Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao.
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| SUBJECT |
Díaz, Junot, 1968- fast |
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Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao (Díaz, Junot) fast |
| Subject |
Dominican Americans in literature.
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Decolonization in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic & Latino.
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Decolonization in literature
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Dominican Americans in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1478023333 |
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9781478023333 |
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