Saldívar / Jose David Saldivar Junot Díaz

On the Half-Life of Love
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2333-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

José David Saldívar offers a critical examination of Junot Díaz, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Saldívar, José David

Jose David Saldivar, Saldivar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

José David Saldívar is Leon Sloss Jr. Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the author or coeditor of many books, including Junot Díaz and the Decolonial Imagination and Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico, both also published by Duke University Press.