‘Barrabás came to us by sea’: Absence and Presence in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits
In Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits, framed by the same sentence – Barrabás came to us by sea –, her narrative style evidences the dialectics of absence and presence. The present is inexorably connected to the absent and the absent is paradoxically discernible in the present. This dialectic...
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Bath Spa University
2009-05-01
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| Series: | Transnational Literature |
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| Online Access: | http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/xmlui/bitstream/2328/3399/1/bitstream |