Jose David Saldivar

Junot Díaz

On the Half-Life of Love

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Produktbeschreibung

Josà David Saldà var offers a critical examination of Junot Dà az, showing how his influences converged in his fiction and how his work radically changed the course of US Latinx literature and created a new way of viewing the decolonial world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 404g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018711
• ISBN-10: 1478018712
• Artikelnr.: 62926708

Autorenporträt

José David Saldívar

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xix
Introduction  1
1. “Wrestling with J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings”: How Junot Díaz
Thinks About Coloniality, Power, and the Speculative Genres  27
Part I. Junot Díaz’s MFA Program Era at Cornell University and Beyond
2. Díaz’s Planet MFA: “Negocios”  47
3. Díaz’s Planet POC (People of Color): Drown  73
Part II. Understanding Imaginary Transference and the Colonial Difference
4. Becoming Oscar “Oscar Wao”  99
Part III. A Legacy In-formation
5. Junot Díaz’s Search for Decolonial Love  151
Conclusion and Coda: “Monstro” and Islandborn  179
Notes  191
Bibliography  225
Index  239