![]() ![]() The emotional impetus behind my response was in part no doubt personal. I took the identity-politics aspect of the novel, the my-grandmother-was-magical multiculturalism, by then a literary cliché, to be a thin veneer over its flattening gentrification of the fringe aspects of popular culture it annexed. The novel immediately went onto every syllabus from Intro to Lit to Seminar in Advanced Semiotics.įor my part, I skimmed it, threw it across the room, and refused to have anything to do with it. Renowned as a short-story master for a decade, Díaz had come through with an ample novel, really three novels in one: an immigrant American bildungsroman, a Caribbean magical realist family saga, and-the newest element-a nerd culture cri de coeur bristling with references to fantasy fiction, anime, role-playing games, and comic books. ![]() This 2007 novel was published during my second year of graduate school, and you’d have thought Christ returned to earth. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz ![]()
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