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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )Metzger is a Ph.D. specializing in literature and drama at The University of New Mexico, where she is a lecturer in the English department and an adjunct professor in the university honors program. In this essay, she...
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From:Literature of Developing Nations for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Literature of Developing Nations (Vol. 1. )Kelly Winters is a freelance writer and has written for a wide variety of academic and educational publishers. In the following essay, she discusses feminist themes in The House of the Spirits. "Critics are terrible...
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From:Contemporary World Writers (2nd ed.)Isabel Allende broke into the ranks of the bestsellers with her first novel, La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits), a book that confirmed the link between Latin American writing and the label “magic...
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From: Studies in Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date Winter 1995) In the following essay, Diamond-Nigh examines Allende's treatment of Latin-American literary history in Eva Luna.] In the beginning was the Word. And in the end. The opening lines of Isabel...
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From: Multicultural Literatures Through Feminist/Poststructuralist Lenses[(essay date 1993) In the essay below, Hart examines what she terms "feminocentric magic realism" in The Stories of Eva Luna, focusing on Allende's handling of such issues as prostitution and rape.] Magic used to show...
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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...
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From: Studies in Twentieth Century Literature[(essay date summer 2003) In the essay that follows, Frame demonstrates how Allende blends fictional elements and mythical hearsay along with historically documented evidence of the 1973 Chilean military coup in the...
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From: Conversations with Isabel Allende[(interview date 1987) The following interview was originally published in Spanish in 1987 and translated into English by Magdalena García Pinto and Trudy Balch. In the exchange, Allende reflects on such topics as how...
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From: Revista Hispanica Moderna[(essay date 1 March 1991) In the following essay, which originally appeared as a chapter of a senior honors thesis presented at Harvard College on March 1, 1991, García-Johnson examines Allende's representation of the...
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From:Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Nonfiction Works (Vol. 1. )During the 1990s, the concept of trauma entered the American cultural spotlight and found its place in the spheres of "psychoanalysis, psychiatry, sociology, and even literature," as Cathy Caruth writes in the book...
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From: Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice[(essay date 1994) Kovach is an American educator and critic who has written works on such subjects as ethnic American literature and literary theory. In the following essay, she examines the ways in which Allende...
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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: Discurso Literario[(essay date 1992) In the essay below, de Carvalho examines the self-exploration of the narrators in Eva Luna and The House of the Spirits.] Isabel Allende has noted that La casa de los espíritus (1982) is the story of...
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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: New Leader[(review date November-December 2001) In the review that follows, Graham presents a negative assessment of A Portrait in Sepia, criticizing such elements as its lack of suspense, its inferiority to both The House of the...
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From: Isabel Allende Today: An Anthology of Essays[(essay date 2002) In this essay, Martinez uses the idea of a rhizome to analyze issues involving the life of a nomad, globalization, the love of freedom, and rebellion against class, race, and gender divisions, all of...
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From: MACLAS: Latin American Essays[(essay date 1989) In the following essay, Espadas traces the literary sources that influenced The House of the Spirits. She explains that Allende drew on chronicles of discovery, such as early Spanish texts in the...
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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:World Literature Today (Vol. 70, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMaryse Conde and Isabel Allende present in their writings the important role the family plays in restructuring the social order. This biological nucleus, despite and because of its flaws, offers itself as a dynamic point...