Dominican-American auto-ethnographies: considering the boundaries of self-representation in Julia Álvarez and Junot Díaz

This article explores some of the dilemmas faced by minority autobiographers when they set out to represent their life stories in writing. While significant benefits may be derived from this self-conscious enterprise, bicultural authors are sometimes unaware of the boundaries -or frames-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ibarrola Armendariz, Aitor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de Alicante 2010-12-01
Series:Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses
Online Access:https://raei.ua.es/article/view/2010-n23-dominican-american-auto-ethnographies-considering-the-boundaries-of-self-representation-in-julia-alvarez-and-junot-diaz