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Telling History Through the Stories of Women: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé
<p>My thesis discusses the ways in which Julia Alvarez's <em>In the Time of the Butterflies</em> (1994) and <em>In the Name of Salomé</em> (2000) are revolutionary texts contesting traditional, male dominated history and redirecting historical and communal foci to the lives of Dominican women. I …
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“I, Too, Am an Occupied Territory”: Border Crossings and Personal Sovereignty in Three Novels by Dominican American Women
<p>Border crossing(s) and personal sovereignty are intimately and complexly connected in novels by and about Dominican American women. Through readings of In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez, Dominicana by Angie Cruz, and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, I argue that patriarchal forms of …