Regular Revolutions: Feminist Travels in Julia Alvarez's <em>How the García Girls Lost Their Accents</em> and <em>In the Time of the Butterflies</em>

Regular Revolutions: Feminist Travels in Julia Alvarez's <em>How the García Girls Lost Their Accents</em> and <em>In the Time of the Butterflies</em>

<p>This essay examines two novels by Dominican American author Julia Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. By undertaking a transnational feminist reading practice, the author explicates the novels’ critique of the political constructions...

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Main Author:	Crystal Parikh
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2011-03-01
Series:	Journal of Transnational American Studies
Subjects:	Julia Alvarez Latina fiction transnational feminism U.S. imperialism Dominican Republic
Online Access:	https://submit.escholarship.org/ojs/index.php/acgcc_jtas/article/view/7015

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