Neobaroque and the experience of America in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

• Authors: Karolina Majkowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article discusses the immigrant experience of America in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz and analyses it with the use of the neobaroque esthetics. The paper seeks to present neobaroque elements present in the text, such as hybridity and the tension between the center and the peripheries to show that neobaroque poetics can be successfully employed to talk about the experience of exile, the migrant condition and the search for identity.

DE

Der Band enthält die Abstracts ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.

FR

Le numéro contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

RU

Том не содержит аннотаций на английском языке.

Keywords

EN

immigrant experience; hybridity; Junot Díaz; neobaroque; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

DE

FR

RU

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2017

online

2018-01-02

Contributors

author

Karolina Majkowska

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Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/lsmll.2017.41.2.126