Yet, curiously absent have been anthologies shoring up U.S. Anthologies such as Cosmos Latinos: An Anthology of Science Fiction from Latin America and Spain (2003) document an established tradition of Latin American sci-fi, and there exists a robust body of scholarship dedicated to interpreting this literature. " Even though dates back to at least the late 1960s, it is just recently that scholars have begun to study it in a focused manner. Importantly, too, it contributed to launching the 'speculative turn' within studies."
Díaz’s novel is a literary coup d’état for its sheer narrative ingenuity in addition to adumbrating that are in fact writing speculative fiction and radically transforming the genre. It further emblematizes the heterogeneity and trans-Americanity animating texts, and demonstrates how may function as incisive social critique. This brilliant speculative novel marshals and combines elements of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and myriad popular cultural references to portray the brutality of the US-sponsored dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo from 1930 to 1961 and its haunting legacies. US Latinx SF made significant breakthroughs in the early 2000s. Cathryn Merla-Watson even identifies what she calls " a veritable renaissance of speculative texts, encompassing, most famously, Dominican American writer and public intellectual Junot Diaz's Pulitzer Prize winning 2007 novel The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
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