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The dialectics of our America : genealogy, cultural critique, and literary history
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ISBN: 0822311615 0822311690 Year: 1995 Publisher: Durham Duke university press

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Trans-Americanity : subaltern modernities, global coloniality, and the cultures of greater Mexico.
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ISBN: 9780822350644 9780822350835 Year: 2012 Publisher: Durham Duke university press.


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Junot Díaz : on the half-life of love
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ISBN: 9781478018711 Year: 2022 Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press,

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In Junot Díaz: On the Half-Life of Love, José David Saldívar offers a critical examination of one of the leading American writers of his generation. He explores Díaz’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. Saldívar examines several aspects of Díaz’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 Américas to his use of the science-fiction imaginary to explore the capitalist zombification of our planet. Throughout, Saldívar shows how Díaz’s works exemplify the literary currents of the early twenty-first century.

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