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Full-Text Articles in Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
The Craft Of Emotion In Isabel Allende's Paula , Susan Carvalho
The Craft Of Emotion In Isabel Allende's Paula , Susan Carvalho
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Isabel Allende's narrative, from her first novel The House of the Spirits (1982) through the most recent works, has often been branded as "sentimental..."
The Integration Of A Fragmented Self In The Works Of Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Malva E. Filer
The Integration Of A Fragmented Self In The Works Of Angelina Muñiz-Huberman, Malva E. Filer
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Literary creation is always a transposition of individual and collective experiences…
Violent Fathers And Runaway Sons: Colonial Relationships In Une Vie De Boy And Mission Terminée , Laurie Corbin
Violent Fathers And Runaway Sons: Colonial Relationships In Une Vie De Boy And Mission Terminée , Laurie Corbin
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This study examines familial relationships in two novels published by Ferdinand Oyono and Mongo Beti shortly before Cameroon's independence in 1960, making use of three levels of analysis. The first shows the impact of colonization on familial and social structures, in particular the ways in which the weakening of the traditional hierarchy leads to the flight of young men from their families and villages. The second looks at the two novels as showing the relationship of France (who was often represented as a kindly parent to its colonies), the colonized countries, and their citizens: the unpredictable and brutal father can …
The Literal And The Literary: A Note On The Historical References In Isabel Allende's La Casa De Los Espíritus , Scott Macdonald Frame
The Literal And The Literary: A Note On The Historical References In Isabel Allende's La Casa De Los Espíritus , Scott Macdonald Frame
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Stripped of much of its individuality as a piece of literature and relegated to the niche set aside for women's writing, Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus has sometimes wrongfully been critically condemned as a mere facsimile of García Màrquez's seminal Latin American novel. However, if critics were to reexamine La casa de los espíritus as a work of fiction in which its writer attempts to give voice to, and achieve personal closure of, historical events so tragically real for her, its comparisons with that "other" Latin American novel might be less frequent. This article contends that Allende uses …