A: El Jefe, The Failed Cattle Thief, amonst other names. Why do you think Junot Diaz chose this as the title and characters name? How does Diaz set up the novel?Use of footnotesSecond person narrationIntroduction to culture = will it play a major role in the novel?Who is Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina?He was the dictator of Dominican Republic (DR) from 1930-1938, 1942-1952Died in 1961 A. Everyone else is already taken.Oscar Wao is Spanish for Wilde. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Aim: How does Junot Diaz use superstition and culture to set up the novel?Īim: How does Junot Diaz use superstition and culture to set up the novel?Introduction - FukuWho is Oscar Wilde?Oscar Wilde: 1854-1900Irish writer and poetRemembered for epigrams and playsImprisoned for two years (hard labor) for gross indecencyBe yourself. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O.

He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey.

Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey.

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