![]() ![]() The ubiquity and complexity of other genre allusions in the novel prove them to be more than throwaway pop-culture references, testifying to the narrator’s deep engagement with the genre as a legitimate "lens" by which to understand human experience. ![]() In the end, Oscar Wao’s greatest debt to genre fiction lies not in the narrator's presentation of ambiguously supernatural explanations for certain plot events, but in his incessant use of metaphors from sf-such as the Watcher and the Lensman-to describe and understand his own position as narrator-author of the sprawling family saga he relates. This essay examines the relationship between Junot Díaz's 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel /The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao/ and the genres of science fiction and fantasy, which number among this decidedly mainstream novel's most important subjects. ![]()
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