on the half-life of love Saldívar, José David 1955- creator text bibliography ncu 2022 monographic eng xxi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 237 cm. "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"-- "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 Saldívar. Includes bibliographical references and index. Díaz, Junot 1968- Criticism and interpretation Díaz, Junot 1968- Crítica e interpretación Dominican Americans in literature Literatura dominicana Decolonization in literature Descolonización Literatura 118 PQ 7409 D542S 2022 813/.54 LIT004050 SOC044000 Saldívar, José David. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 (DLC) 2021055641 2021055642 DLC 220218 20240115120314.0 22446424 spa