Junot Diaz: On The Half-life Of Love
"José David Saldivar's Junot DÃaz is a literary study that takes a prismatic approach to the works and life of the Afro-Latino artist. Saldivar carefully traces the various themes and life events that influenced DÃaz's writing-from childhood trauma to immigrant life to unusual writing processes. While this project is invested in telling the story of DÃaz as a writer, an intellectual, and an activist, it is also a long reading of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao (2007). Because of its monumental impact on the course of US Latinx literature and new way of envisioning the decolonial world, Saldivar takes this novel as the heart of DÃaz's oeuvre. Saldivar highlights the novel's germination, its connections with other critiques of colonialism, and its importance to understanding DÃaz's fiction more generally"--
