02944cam a22004818i 4500 22446424 BJBSDDR 20240115120314.0 m |o d | ta 220218s2022 ncu ob 001 0 eng 2021055642 9781478016083 (hardcover) 9781478018711 (paperback) DLC spa DLC rda eng pcc 118 PQ 7409 D542S 2022 813/.54 23/eng/20220225 LIT004050 SOC044000 bisacsh Saldívar, José David, 1955- 33126 Junot Díaz : on the half-life of love / José David Saldívar. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022. xxi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 237 cm. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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. "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. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. Díaz, Junot, 1968- Criticism and interpretation. Díaz, Junot, 1968- Crítica e interpretación 10220 Dominican Americans in literature. Literatura dominicana 2261 Decolonization in literature. Descolonización 10787 Literatura Print version: Saldívar, José David. Junot Díaz Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478016083 (DLC) 2021055641 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc 0 BK sba 120322 120322 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2023-11-21 0 118 PQ 7409 D542S 2022 00000174166 2023-11-21 00:00:00 1 2023-11-21 BK