In 1975 she earned a master’s degree in creative writing from Syracuse University in New York.Īlvarez began her career as a writer-in-residence at various grade schools and colleges. She spent two years at Connecticut College before transferring to Vermont’s Middlebury College, from which she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1971. Alvarez developed a passion for writing in high school. There her father opposed the dictatorship of the country’s leader, Rafael Trujillo, and in 1960 her family hastily moved back to the United States. When she was just a few months old, her family moved to the Dominican Republic. Many of her works were published in both Spanish and English.Īlvarez was born on March 27, 1950, in New York, New York. Dominican-American author and educator Julia Alvarez wrote stories and poems for young people and for adults. 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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