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Reading Junot Díaz / Christopher González.

Author/creator González, Christopher author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]
Descriptionxi, 181 pages ; 20 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Latino and Latin American Profiles
Latino and Latin American profiles. ^A1279094
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.
Abstract "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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2015029545
ISBN9780822963950 (paperback)
ISBN0822963957 (paperback)

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