by Christopher Gonzalez
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015
Paper: 978-0-8229-6395-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8229-8124-4
Library of Congress Classification PS3554.I259Z64 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.54

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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 González 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. González provides a synthesis of the prevailing critical studies of Díaz and offers many new insights into his work.