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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. Purchase Afterlife from BookPeople, an independent bookstore based in Austin HERE.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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Julia Alvarez is appearing through a partnership with the TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library’s program “The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez.” In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.
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She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten.