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Politics and Literature: Dictatorship in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

By: Ovidiu Matiu  
Open Access
|Mar 2024

References

  1. Díaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Riverhead Books, 2007.
  2. Harford Vargas, Jennifer. Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel. Oxford UP, 2018.
  3. López-Calvo, Ignacio. “God and Trujillo”: Literary and Cultural Representations of the Dominican Dictator. UP of Florida, 2005.
  4. McCracken, Ellen. Paratexts and Performance in the Novels of Junot Díaz and Sandra Cisneros. Springer, 2016.
  5. Nanita, Abelardo R. Trujillo: The Biography of a Great Leader. Vantage Press, 1957.
  6. O’Rourke, Meghan. “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Questions for Junot Díaz.” Slate, 8 Nov. 2007. slate.com, slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/11/questions-for-junotdiaz.html.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2023-0004 | Journal eISSN: 2067-5712 | Journal ISSN: 1583-6401
Language: English
Page range: 37 - 50
Published on: Mar 13, 2024
Published by: Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

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