Research Catalog

Title

Reading Junot Díaz / Christopher González.

Author

González, Christopher,

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015]

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Details

Description

xi, 181 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

• "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"--
• "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"--

Series Statement

Latino and Latin American Profiles

Uniform Title

• Latino and Latin American profiles.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Díaz, Junot, 1968-
• Díaz, Junot, 1968- > Criticism and interpretation
• LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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

ISBN

• 9780822963950
• 0822963957

LCCN

^^2015029545

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library