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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: Critical Approaches to Isabel Allende's Novels[(essay date 1991) In the following excerpt, Rehbein maintains that Allende manipulates language and the narrator's voice in Eva Luna to represent a changing reality in the narrative.] Cuando escribi Eva Luna, por...
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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: 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: Latin American Literary Review[(essay date July-December 2000) In the essay below, Amago focuses on the narrative style and strategies Allende utilizes in Cuentos de Eva Luna--particularly the author's use of the Thousand and One Nights as a...
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From:Short Story Criticism (Vol. 65. )WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:Short FictionCuentos de Eva Luna [The Stories of Eva Luna] 1990Afrodita: Cuentos, recetas y otros afrodisíacos [Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses] (essays, folklore, and short stories) 1997Other...