{"product_id":"junot-diaz-9781478018711","title":"Junot Diaz","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosé 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  xi\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. “Wrestling with J. R. R. Tolkien’s \u003ci\u003eLord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e”: How Junot Díaz Thinks About Coloniality, Power, and the Speculative Genres  27\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Junot Díaz’s MFA Program Era at Cornell University and Beyond\u003cbr\u003e 2. Díaz’s Planet MFA: “Negocios”  47\u003cbr\u003e 3. Díaz’s Planet POC (People of Color): \u003ci\u003eDrown\u003c\/i\u003e  73\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Understanding Imaginary Transference and the Colonial Difference\u003cbr\u003e 4. Becoming Oscar “Oscar Wao”  99\u003cbr\u003e Part III. A Legacy In-formation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Junot Díaz’s Search for Decolonial Love  151\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion and Coda: “Monstro” and \u003ci\u003eIslandborn\u003c\/i\u003e  179\u003cbr\u003e Notes  191\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  225\u003cbr\u003e Index  239","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409009287511,"sku":"9781478018711","price":16.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018711.jpg?v=1730505074","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/junot-diaz-9781478018711","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}