Reading Junot Díaz / Christopher González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González, Christopher, author.

Series:

Latino and Latin American profiles.

Latino and Latin American Profiles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Díaz, Junot, 1968---Criticism and interpretation.

Díaz, Junot.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Reading Junot Diaz is the first study to focus on his complete body of published works. It explores the totality of his work and provides a concise view of the interconnected and multilayered narrative that weaves throughout Diaz's writings"-- Provided by publisher.

"Dominican American author and Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz has gained international fame for his blended, cross-cultural fiction. Reading Junot Díaz is the first study to focus on his complete body of published works. It explores the totality of his work and provides a concise view of the interconnected and multilayered narrative that weaves throughout Díaz's writings. Christopher Gonzalez analyzes both the formal and thematic features and discusses the work in the context of speculative and global fiction as well as Caribbean and Latino/a culture and language. Topics such as race, masculinity, migration, and Afro-Latinidad are examined in depth. Gonzalez provides a synthesis of the prevailing critical studies of Díaz and offers many new insights into his work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Drown (1996); 2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007); 3. This Is How You Lose Her (2012); 4. Uncollected Fiction and Nonfiction; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822981244

0822981246

OCLC:

933298112