Overview
In Junot Diaz: On the Half-Life of Love, Jose David Saldivar offers a critical examination of one of the leading American writers of his generation. He explores Diaz's imaginative work and the diasporic and immigrant world he inhabits, showing how his influences converged in his fiction and how his writing-especially his Pulitzer Prize--winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-radically changed the course of US Latinx literature and created a new way of viewing the decolonial world. Saldivar examines several aspects of Diaz's career, from his vexed relationship to the literary aesthetics of Whiteness that dominated his MFA experience and his critiques of the colonialities of power, race, and gender in culture and societies of the Dominican Republic, United States, and the Americas to his use of the science-fiction imaginary to explore the capitalist zombification of our planet. Throughout, Saldivar shows how Diaz's works exemplify the literary currents of the early twenty-first century.
Full Product Details
Author: José David Saldívar
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9781478016083
ISBN 10: 1478016086
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 30 September 2022
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""This is an engaging, important contribution to understanding of Junot Díaz’s work and life. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."" -- A. A. Edwards * Choice * ""Junot Díaz is a good introduction to the Diaz oeuvre, while at the same time, a must-read for an intermediate reader of Junot Díaz’s work."" -- Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez * Kritikon Litterarum * ""Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of Love offers a compelling critical examination of Díaz’s fiction and his distinctive place in the development of Latinx literature in the United States. It represents an indispensable and insightful guide to the emergence of Díaz’s decolonial aesthetic for scholars and students interested in the study of contemporary Latinx fiction. Saldívar’s absorbing and thorough interpretation of Díaz’s fiction and literary career demonstrates that Díaz’s work matters, perhaps more than ever, as the legacy of colonialism and other systems of control continue to influence the trajectories and fiction of Latinx authors."" -- Jose O. Fernandez * New West Indian Guide *
"""This is an engaging, important contribution to understanding of Junot Díaz’s work and life. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."" -- A. A. Edwards * Choice *"
"""This is an engaging, important contribution to understanding of Junot Díaz’s work and life. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."" -- A. A. Edwards * Choice * ""Junot Díaz is a good introduction to the Diaz oeuvre, while at the same time, a must-read for an intermediate reader of Junot Díaz’s work."" -- Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez * Kritikon Litterarum *"
""This is an engaging, important contribution to understanding of Junot Díaz’s work and life. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers."" -- A. A. Edwards * Choice * ""Junot Díaz is a good introduction to the Diaz oeuvre, while at the same time, a must-read for an intermediate reader of Junot Díaz’s work."" -- Gustavo Gutierrez Hernandez * Kritikon Litterarum *
Author Information
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.
