Critical Insights : how the García girls lost their accents /
"Julia Alvarez's 1991 novel How the García Girls Lost Their Accents is an important contribution to recent Latinx and multicultural literature. Exhibiting an intriguing structure and dealing with themes such as initiation and maturation that are relevant to people everywhere and in all era...
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Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY :
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing,
[2021]
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| Series: | Critical insights.
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Table of Contents:
- About this volume / Kimberly Drake
- "The origin of all poems," Pan-America, and poetic imperialism in How the García girls lost their accents / Kimberly Drake
- Biography of Julia Alvarez / Kimberly Drake
- The cold war within : Laura as a double agent in How the García girls lost their accents / Evelyn Boria-Rivera
- Julia Alvarez's How the García girls lost their accents : a survey of early reviews / Robert C. Evans
- Mujercitas : How the García girls lost their accents, Little women, and intertextuality / Jessica Wells Cantiello
- Yoyo and Pila : the disabled body and the violent gaze / Kimberly Drake
- The specter of Haiti and race in How the García girls lost their accents / Norrell Edwards
- "No trespassing" : language, madness, and patriarchy in How the García girls lost their accents / Nereida Segura-Rico
- Returning to the past : recuperative memory and reverse chronology in How the García girls lost their accents / Daniel Archer
- Losing and finding dominicanidad : Julia Alvarez and Junot Díaz in the Latinx canon / Ruth McHugh-Dillon
- Bulls, monkeys, and birds : animal imagery in Julia Alvarez' How the García girls lost their accents / Rosann Simeroth
- Julia Alvarez : a survey of interviews / Robert C. Evans.
