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020 $a9781478018711
035 $a(OCoLC)1345470646
035 $a(OCoLC)on1345470646
035 $a(NNC)16764681
040 $aNNC$beng$erda$cNNC
050 4 $aPS3554.I259$bZ88 2022
100 1 $aSaldívar, José David,$eauthor.
245 10 $aJunot Díaz :$bon the half-life of love /$cJosé David Saldívar
264 1 $aDurham :$bDuke University Press,$c2022
300 $axxi, 246 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references ([225]-237) and index
505 0 $a$a"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.
520 $a$a"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"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aDíaz, Junot,$d1968-$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aDíaz, Junot,$d1968-$tBrief wondrous life of Oscar Wao.
650 0 $aDominican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aDominican Americans in literature.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3554.I259$iZ88 2022