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Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 1501117017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Trueba family embodies strong feelings. This family saga starts at the beginning of the 20th century and continues through the assassination of Allende in 1973.
Author: Karen Wooley Martin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1855662000
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe source of the narrative energy that creates such absorbing stories. Allende's very popular novels have attracted both critical approval and opprobrium, often at the expense of genuine analysis. This sophisticated study explores the narrative architecture of Allende's House of the Spirits [1982], Daughter of Fortune [1999], and Portrait in Sepia [2000] as a trilogy, proposing that the places created in these novels subvert the patriarchal norms that have governed politics, sexuality, and ethnicity. Rooted in the Foucauldian premise that the history of space is essentially the history of power, and supported by Susan Stanford Friedman's cultural geographies of encounter as well as Gloria Anzaldúa's study of borderlands, this study shows that, by rejecting traditional spatial hierarchies, Allende's trilogy systematically deterritorializes the elite while shifting the previously marginalized to the physical and thematic centers of her works. This movement provides the narrative energy which draws the reader into Allende's universe, and sustains the 'good story' for which she has been universally acclaimed. KAREN WOOLEY MARTIN is Associate Professor of Spanish at Union University, Jackson, Tennessee.
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780553273915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. Esteban -- The patriarch, a volatile and proud man whose lust for land is legendary and who is haunted by his tyrannical passion for the wife he can never completely possess. Clara -- The matriarch, elusive and mysterious, who foretells family tragedy and shapes the fortunes of the house of the Truebas. Blanca -- Their daughter, soft-spoken yet rebellious, whose shocking love for the son of her father's foreman fuels Esteban's everlasting contempt... even as it produces the grandchild he adores. Alba -- The fruit of Blanca's forbidden love, a luminous bearty, a fiery and willful woman... the family's break with the past and link to the future.
Author: Isabel Allende
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780606228718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas, and theirs is a world readers will not want to leave.
Author: Hein Viljoen
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780820467894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Storyscapes we listen carefully to what South African writers reveal about themselves and their relations to South African space since the democratic transition of 1994. One main focus is the power of stories to uncover contradictory processes and investments of identity and to point readers toward a more meaningful life. Another main focus is the complexities of the post-colonial understanding of South African land, landscape, and space. Space in relation to race, class, and gender identity figures prominently in analyses and comparisons of diverse South African texts, such as Breyten Breytenbach's Dog Heart, André Brink's Imaginings of Sand, as well as the important South African subgenre of the farm novel. Questions of black or hybrid identity are highlighted by confronting older texts with new ones by black and women writers such as A.H.M. Scholtz and E.K.M. Dido. These texts - and a number of Afrikaans texts that are less well-known in the English-speaking world - are set in the wider frameworks of postcolonial criticism and global issues of cultural identity.
Author: Evelyn Picon Garfield
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780814318584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvelyn Picon Garfield has chosen selections from the prose works of twelve female authors representing seven Latin American countries to create a collection which speaks to a variety of issues and exhibits a pastiche of richly varied artistic styles. Containing short stories, a one-act play, and excerpts from novels, the volume touches on such topics as political commitment and persecution, regional ethnicity of African and Indian cultures, social issues between classes and races, misogyny, the complexities of the human psyche, and female solidarity. Garfield includes works from the six authors she interviewed for her Women's Voices from Latin America, and has added selections from six other writers including Isabel Allende and Clarice Lispector.
Author: Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780791425596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes how Latin-American women writers of all classes, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, ironize masculinist, classicist, and racist cliches in their narratives.
Author: Sara E. Quay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2008-11-30
Total Pages: 1083
ISBN-13: 0313071675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1438113080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of critical essays analyzing modern Hispanic American writers including Junot Diaz, Pat Mora, and Rudolfo Anaya.
Author: Anne Fliotsos
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008-06-09
Total Pages: 490
ISBN-13: 0252032268
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