02765cam a22004218i 450000100090000000300080000900500170001700600180003400700030005200800410005501000170009602000310011302000310014404000230017504100080019804200080020605000290021408200290024308400340027210000370030624500730034326400440041630000480046033600260050833700260053433800360056050400510059650503200064752008960096758801030186360000570196660000560202365000390207965000260211865000340214465000340217877601310221222446424BJBSDDR20240115120314.0m    |o  d |     ta220218s2022    ncu     ob    001 0 eng    a  2021055642  z9781478016083q(hardcover)  z9781478018711q(paperback)  aDLCbspacDLCerda  aeng  apcc14a118 PQ 7409 bD542S 202200a813/.54223/eng/20220225  aLIT004050aSOC0440002bisacsh1 aSaldívar, José David,d1955-10aJunot Díaz :bon the half-life of love /cJosé David Saldívar. 1aDurham :bDuke University Press,c2022.  axxi, 246 pages :b illustrations ;c237 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 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.  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.  aDescription based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.10aDíaz, Junot,d1968-xCriticism and interpretation.10aDíaz, Junot,d1968-xCrítica e interpretación 0aDominican Americans in literature. 4aLiteratura dominicana 0aDecolonization in literature. 4aDescolonizaciónxLiteratura08iPrint version:aSaldívar, José David.tJunot DíazdDurham : Duke University Press, 2022z9781478016083w(DLC) 2021055641