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AUTHOR
Tim Lanzendörfer
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The Marvelous History of the Dominican Republic in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2013
Few things are as noticeable in Junot Diaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) as its references to a wide variety of movies, TV series, comics, and most centrally to fantasy, the genre in which worlds are created that allow for the existence of magic, monsters, and other elements of the marvelous. Interweaving the story of the fictional Cabral family in the Dominican Republic and in the diaspora with the history of the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo (1930–1961), the novel offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Caribbean history in a way that is completely intelligible only if one understands the relevance of its primary fantasy intertext, The Lord of the Rings (1954–55), both for…
The Captain Who Burned His Ships: Captain Thomas Tingey, USN, 1750–1829. By Gordon S. Brown. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2011. Pp. viii, 2…
2012
A large number of biographies of US Navy officers of the age of sail have recently seen publication. Gordon S. Brown has now written the life of one of the more obscure figures in the navy's early ...
Superheroes, Social Responsibility, and the Metaphor of Gods in Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s Kingdom Come
2015
Some decades ago, Umberto Eco, in » The Myth of Superman, « pointed out the paradoxical nature of the all-powerful superhero. » Superman, « Eco notes, » is practically omnipotent; « consequently » one could expect the most bewildering political, economic, and technological upheavals in the world « from Superman – or any other › practically ‹ omnipotent superhero. But no such transformations occur in the narratives.