Familiarity and Convention in Junot Diazs Short Fiction This essay addresses two issues in Junot Diaz's short stories, collected in the volume "Drown": the omission of quotation marks, integrating dialogue as a description of characters, and the use of Spanish terms to mark familiarity or emotional content. Female characters' use of extended Spanish phrases is also addressed from the reader's perspective as a monolingual English speaker. Pages: 3 Bibliography: Content-Di source(s) listed Filename: 22392 7218junotdiaz_edited_+ref.doc Price: 26.85