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Julia Alvarez’s Works

Julia Alvarez’s Works. By Jared Bergantino. Her Literature. Fiction. Poetry. The Woman I Kept To Myself Homecoming The Other Side /El Otro Lado . Return to Sender Saving the world In the Name of Salomé ¡YO! In the Time of Butterflies How the García Girls Lost Their Accents .

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Julia Alvarez’s Works

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  1. Julia Alvarez’sWorks By Jared Bergantino

  2. Her Literature Fiction Poetry The Woman I Kept To Myself Homecoming TheOtherSide/El Otro Lado • Return to Sender • Saving the world • In the Name of Salomé • ¡YO! • In the Time of Butterflies • How the García Girls Lost Their Accents Children’s books:Fiction Nonfiction • Once Upon A Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA • Something to Declare • The Best Gift of All:The Legend of La ViejaBelén • The Legend of Altagracia http://www.juliaalvarez.com/books/

  3. Her writing • In an inter view Julia Alvarez states “That's hard to say. I think at particular times in my life, one or another genre feels like the right one for me to investigate. Poetry was my first love, and in some ways continues to be. It seems to me the hardest to write, and the least rewarded genre, at least in this culture. But poems, the best poems, address that cutting edge of self -- hone it as well -- that edge where the self transmutes into spiritual being, or something like that. (I need a poem to say what I mean right now!) That said, or imprecisely said, I also very much like the essay form -- it provides me with the precision to really zoom in on an idea.” (quoted in McClellen) • “Fiction is wonderfully egalitarian, in its bungling, fleshy, noisy, human way, allowing all kinds of diversities and perspectives to enter. It's an open house, or rather, the illusion of an open house.” (quoted in McClellen) • Loves poetry although finds it is hard • Fiction true to life

  4. Themes in Her Writing • Personal experiences • Bridge between America and Lantina culture • Diversity www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Alvarez.htm

  5. Purposes of Her Writing • "I write to find out what I'm thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things" (quoted in Walker) • “the writer's not there to solve the problem, but to state the problem correctly" (quoted in Walker) • She wants to share experiences with the reader www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Alvarez.htm

  6. Works Cited • Walker, Susan. Julia Alvarez. Fall 1997. Web. 3 October 2009. <www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Alvarez.html> • Potts, Siennna M. Julia Alvarez. 3 October 2009. Web. 3 October 2009. <www.juliaalvarez.com/> • McClellen, Hillary. In The Name Of The Homeland. The Atlantic Monthly Group. 19 July 2000. Web. 3 October 2009. <www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-07-19.htm>

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