Alvarez is writer-in-residence emerita at Middlebury College, where she occasionally teaches workshops in creative writing. In 2013, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama. She is also a prize-winning poet, children's author, and essayist. The novel, set in 2019, poses questions about American immigration and mental-health policies, and it is a moving exploration of the ways we inadvertently fail the people we love."Īlvarez has written many acclaimed novels, including How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies, and Saving the World.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.Join us for an evening of conversation between authors Julia Alvarez and Jill McCorkle and learn about their latest novels, recently released in paperback - great for book groups!Īntonia, the protagonist of Alvarez's Afterlife, has just retired from teaching at a small liberal arts college in Vermont when her beloved husband suddenly dies and then her sister disappears… Her life upended, Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola. “New Ways of Telling: Latinas’ Narratives of Exile and Return.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (1996): 50–69.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. Race and Politics in the Dominican Republic. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998. The Dominican Republic: A National History. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1997. “From Third World Politics to First World Practices: Contemporary Latina Writers in the United States.” Interventions: Feminist Dialogues on Third World Women’s Literature and Film. “Caught Between Two Cultures.” Newsweek (April 20, 1992): 78–79. “Women on the Verge.” Hispanic (March 1995): 22–26. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1999. New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1997. Show and Tell: Identity as Performance in U.S. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. “A Clean Windshield.” Interview in Passion and Craft: Conversations with Notable Writers. Review: Latin American Literature and Arts (spring 1997): 31–37.Īlvarez, Julia. “Conversation with Julia Alvarez.” Interview by Heather Rosario-Sievert. “Something to Declare.” Interview by Dwight Garner. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1998.Īlvarez, Julia. “Local Touch, Global Reach: Address to the Texas Library Association, April 4, 1998.” Texas Library Journal (summer 1998): 68–74.Īlvarez, Julia. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1997.Īlvarez, Julia. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 1991.Īlvarez, Julia. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īlvarez, Julia. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. These narratives brilliantly disclose the pain that comes from leaving one’s home and relocating in a hostile environment that is characterized by its race, class, and gender oppression. The novel thus paints a multifaceted critique that is inspired by Alvarez’s creative writing efforts.
¡ Yo! Is divided into sixteen sections, each one offering a different perspective regarding a character’s relationship with Yolanda García. In the second novel, Alvarez provides Yolanda’s family, friends and acquaintances with the chance to tell their version of the story. In the first novel, Yolanda García, one of four daughters, describes her family’s experiences living in the Dominican Republic and immigrating to the United States. In many ways Julia Alvarez’s ¡ Yo! can be read as a sequel to the first novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents.
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