Abstract: As Lev Grossman’s review of Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) informs us, Diaz’s novel is “an immigrant-family saga for people who don’t read immigrant-family sagas.” However, Grossman also remarks, it “wouldn’t really be fair” to term the novel a family saga in that it is so much more than this, “a mixture of straight-up English, Dominican Spanish and hieratic nerdspeak crowded with references to Tolkien, DC Comics, role-playing games and classic science fiction.” To fix it in one particular categor...
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Literature
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