Proposal

I'm interested in writing about why Junot Diaz muddies basic details in the story, like characters names, backgrounds, and other parts of their identity. This leads me to the question, why does Junot Diaz not give basic details of his characters identity when these are intimate stories about them? One way to consider this is that he tries to avert our attention away from maybe the individual, and wants to put his focus on the group of people he is trying to reflect.