Junot Diaz: On the Half-Life of Love

José David SaldÍvar's book Junot DÍaz: On the Half-Life of Love examines the imaginative work and diasporic and immigrant world of one of the leading American writers of his generation, exploring his influences, critiques, and use of science-fiction to explore the capitalist zombification of our planet.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Duke University Press

José David Saldívar presents a thorough analysis of one of the most prominent American authors of his generation in his book On the Half-Life of Love. He delves into Díaz's imaginative world and the diasporic and immigrant environment in which he lives, demonstrating how his influences converged in his fiction and how his writing, particularly his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, revolutionized US Latinx literature and provided a fresh perspective on the decolonial world. Saldívar examines various aspects of Díaz's career, including his complex relationship with the literary aesthetics of Whiteness that shaped his MFA experience and his critiques of the colonialities of power, race, and gender in Dominican Republic, United States, and the Américas. He also explores Díaz's use of the science-fiction imaginary to examine the capitalist zombification of our planet. Throughout, Saldívar highlights how Díaz's works exemplify the literary currents of the early twenty-first century.

Weight: 404g
Dimension: 151 x 229 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478018711