THE INSCRIPTION OF VIOLENCE ON THE CULTURE BODY: JUNOT DIAZ’S THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO by Rocío Carrasco Carrasco, Cinta Mesa González

“…La fragilidad del cuerpo como recipiente cultural es uno de los temas centrales en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008). El pasado dominicano de los protagonistas y su vida actual en Estados Unidos marcan tanto su desarrollo psicológico como físico. …”
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Transculturación, translingüismo y la novela "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" de Junot Díaz by Ingrid Petkova

“…Transculturation, Translanguaging and Junot Díaz’s Novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life" of Oscar Wao The aim of this article is to talk about two concepts: transculturation and translanguaging and how these theories are expressed in Junot Díaz’s novel “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”. …”
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Hacia una configuración de lugares sin territorios en The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Magdalena Lopez

“…A partir de la distinción de Glissant entre territorio y lugar se propone leer la novela de Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) como una ficcionalización de la idea de lugar. …”
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Escape from Caribbean Mordor: Exile and the Dominican Diaspora in Junot Diaz’s "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Carmen M. Méndez García

“…We will analyze The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), by Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, as a locus of tension between the country that forces into exile (the Dominican Republic) and the country who takes in (the United States), also reflected in the complex identity of the protagonists, split between two cultures. …”
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Reinterpreting the Diaspora and the Political Violence of the Trujillo Regime : The Fantastic as a Tool for Cultural Mediation in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Diana Pifano

“…Junot Díaz’ first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is a complex text, at the core of which is an historical narrative about the Trujillo regime and its after-effects. …”
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LÓPEZ, Gemma; REQUENA-PELEGRÍ, Teresa (UB): La traducción del cambio de código: la construcción de la hibridez formal e identitaria en “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, de Junot Díaz. by Teresa LÓPEZ, Gemma; REQUENA-PELEGRÍ

“…En el presente capítulo abordamos los retos que presenta la traducción de la novela The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) al español en tanto que texto híbrido en a nivel lingüístico, identitario y literario. …”
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Novels for Students. Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels / by Constantakis, Sara, editor 651896, Gale Group (Online service) 651863

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Masculinities in Tension in Two Texts by Junot Díaz by María Jose Buteler

“…This paper proposes to explore the construction of the masculine identity of the characters of </span><em>Drown</em><span> (1996) and of </span><em>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao </em><span>(2007) by Junot Díaz. …”
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Translating Caribbean thresholds of pain from without: Hispaniola out of bounds, Hispaniola unbound? by Laëtitia Saint-Loubert

“…This paper focuses on The Farming of Bones, a fictitious testimonio in which Haitian author Edwidge Danticat relates the 1937 genocide perpetrated against Haitians along the River Massacre in Hispaniola and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a postmodern tale revisiting Trujillo’s dictatorship by Dominican author Junot Díaz. …”
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Running In (and Out) the Family by Mari, Lorenzo

“…While focusing, in particular, on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz and Lara ([1997] 2009) by Bernardine Evaristo, this survey of family novels across different literary traditions aims to show the intrinsic porosity, as well as the strenuous resistance, of the genre. …”
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Subverting Transnationalized Latin-American Machismo. Junot Diaz’s Short Stories by Mihai Țapu

“…For a better understanding of the formative years of his narrator, the last section of the paper will briefly consider Diaz’s only novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 2007.…”
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Rethinking form in postcolonial literature : politics, aesthetics, and formal strategies of resistance by Tan, Leah Jolene Mei Yee

“…With a close examination of Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), then, I test the viability of my claim: that the essence of the postcolonial literary aesthetic is not situated in the appearance of the work – but that it, more importantly, is situated in the political work that the postcolonial text does.…”
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“Neither Here Nor There.” The Experience of Borderless Nation in Contemporary Dominican-American Literature by Karolina Majkowska

“…Consequently, the article seeks to examine the experience of in-betweenness, of being suspended between the boundaries and borders of two countries in selected texts of contemporary Dominican-American writers: Junot Díaz’s novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and a short story “Monstro,” and Angie Cruz’s Soledad. …”
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