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From: The Text Is Myself: Women's Life Writing and Catastrophe[(essay date 2004) In this essay, Fuchs, highlighting both the biographical and autobiographical aspects of Paula, posits that the text can be separated into two parts--a catastrophe narrative and a crisis narrative--and...
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From: Women's Review of Books[(review date December 2003) In the review that follows, Dunbar-Ortiz presents a mixed assessment of My Invented Country, detailing Allende's reasons for writing the memoir and emphasizing the book's reliance on the...
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From: Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos[(essay date winter 2006) In the following essay, Jolley reads Paula as an example of "personal criticism" in which Allende uses the mother-daughter relationship to articulate her own definition of feminist ideology.]...
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From: Isabel Allende's Writing of the Self--Trespassing the Boundaries of Fiction and Autobiography[(essay date 2003) In this essay, Ramblado-Minero maintains that Allende's texts operate at two levels: they portray the author's own formation and development of self-identity, and they offer a depiction of the female...
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From: Hispania[(essay date May 2003) In this essay, Maier considers the writing of Paula as a therapeutic exercise undertaken by Allende, and links the stages of grief experienced and recorded by Allende in the text to the clinical...
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From: Hispanofila[(essay date 2001) In the essay below, Meacham uses the myth of Persephone and Demeter to elucidate the portrayal of the mother-daughter relationship in both La casa de los espíritus and Paula.] Until a strong line of...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date summer 2004) In the following essay, Gough investigates Allende's use of voyeuristic storytelling in her works, claiming that these voyeuristic episodes add to the artistry of Allende's texts by furthering...
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From: Isabel Allende[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Levine analyzes the narrative structure in Of Love and Shadows, claiming that although the novel contains elements of a variety of genres, it closely resembles what the critic...