Junot Díaz on the half-life of love
"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...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Durham, London
Duke University Press
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xxi, 246 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781478016083 978-1-4780-1608-3 9781478018711 978-1-4780-1871-1 |