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Allende, Isabel - 1942–, Chilean novelist. Living abroad since the 1973 coup that deposed her uncle, President Salvador Allende Gossens, Isabel Allende, who has lived in California for many years, is among the most notable contemporary Chilean writers. Allende's fiction is distinguished by its fusion of traditional realism with political (including feminist) concerns. Her first and

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Isabel Allende: Life and Spirits » Read Now
by Celia Correas Zapata, Margaret Sayers Peden. 206 pgs.

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Isabel Allende: A Critical Companion » Read Now
by Karen Castellucci Cox. 184 pgs.

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The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction (Chap. 3 "Isabel Allende") » Read Now
by Donald L. Shaw. 217 pgs.

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What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing which began to...
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What happened in Spanish American fiction after the Boom? Can we define the Post-Boom? What are its characteristics? How does it relate to the Boom itself? Is Post-Boom the same as Postmodernism or something quite different? Shaw traces the emergence of a different kind of writing which began to displace the Boom in the mid-1970s and has flourished ever since. More reader-friendly, more concerned with the here and now of Latin America, the writers of the Post-Boom have explored new areas of Spanish American life and incorporated characters from new social groups, especially young working-class and lower middle-class figures with their distinctive "pop" culture and freewheeling life-style. Shaw suggests that, while some Boom writers have moved toward the Post-Boom, Post-Boom narrative is distinctively different from that of the older movement and cannot be readily assimilated into Postmodernism.
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Latin American Women's Writing: Feminist Readings in Theory and Crisis (Chap. 4 "The Wandering Text: Situating the Narratives of Isabel Allende") » Read Now
by Anny Brooksbank Jones, Catherine Davies. 264 pgs.

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This collection of essays on Latin American women's writing--written by the leading feminist critics in Latin America, the United States, and Europe--rethinks notions of gender and cultural identity and examines the specific discursive practices of a range of female-authored texts. The contributors...
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This collection of essays on Latin American women's writing--written by the leading feminist critics in Latin America, the United States, and Europe--rethinks notions of gender and cultural identity and examines the specific discursive practices of a range of female-authored texts. The contributors offer fresh readings of canonical authors, such as Maria Luisa Bombal and Rosario Castellanos, and present essays on emerging Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina writers. The collection represents the most influential strands in current feminist criticism on Latin America, including psychoanalytic, post-structuralist, and Marxist approaches, with their diverse post-colonial and philosophical inflections.
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Unscrambling Allende's "Dos Palabras": The Self, the Immigrant/Writer, and Social Justice, in MELUS » Read Now
by Luz Maria Umpierre. 9 pgs.

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Magical Places in Isabel Allende's Eva Luna and Cuentos De Eva Luna, in West Virginia University Philological Papers » Read Now
by Barbara Foley Buedel. 10 pgs.

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Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community ("Past-On Stories: History and the Magically Real, Morrison and Allende on Call" begins on p. 285) » Read Now
by Lois Parkinson Zamora, Wendy B. Faris. 582 pgs.

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Women Shapeshifters: Transforming the Contemporary Novel (Chap. 5 "Magic Realism: Isabel Allende") » Read Now
by Thelma J. Shinn. 204 pgs.

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An exciting study of novels by ten women writers who have combined the traditions of Romance and Realism to offer a more comprehensive view of contemporary life.
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Authorizing Female Voice and Experience: Ghosts and Spirits in Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior' and Allende's 'The House of the Spirits,' in MELUS » Read Now
by Ruth Y. Jenkins. 12 pgs.

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Latin-American Women Writers: Class, Race, and Gender ("Isabel Allende" begins on p. 99) » Read Now
by Myriam Yvonne Jehenson. 206 pgs.

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Teaching Isabel Allende's La Casa de los Espiritus (The House of the Spirits), in College Literature » Read Now
by Gail Tayko. 5 pgs.

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Maryse Conde and Isabel Allende: Family Saga Novels, in World Literature Today » Read Now
by Maria Roof. 6 pgs.

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