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000337541 1001_ $$aAlvarez, Julia.
000337541 24510 $$aSomething to declare /$$cJulia Alvarez.
000337541 260__ $$aNew York :$$bPlume,$$c1999.
000337541 300__ $$axiv, 300 p. ;$$c21 cm.
000337541 500__ $$aOrignially published: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.
000337541 50500 $$tSomething to declare to my readers --$$gPart one:$$tCustoms --$$tGrandfather's blessing --$$tOur papers --$$tMy English --$$tMy second opera --$$tI want to be Miss America --$$gEl$$tDoctor --$$gLa$$tGringuita --$$tPicky eater --$$tBriefly, a gardener --$$tImagining motherhood --$$gA$$tGenetics of justice --$$tFamily matters --$$gPart two:$$tDeclarations --$$tFirst muse --$$tOf maids and other muses --$$tSo much depends --$$tDona Aida, with your permission --$$tHave typewriter, will travel --$$gA$$tVermont writer from the Dominican Republic --$$tChasing the butterflies --$$tGoodbye, Ms. Chips --$$tIn the name of the novel --$$tTen of my writing commandments --$$tGrounds for fiction --$$tWriting matters.
000337541 520__ $$aIn 24 autobiographical essays, the author presents her Dominican childhood, her family's immigration to the United States, her college years, writing, marriages, & return trips to her homeland. In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez takes us behind the scenes and shares the lessons she's learned on her way to becoming an internationally acclaimed novelist. In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her family fled the Dominican Republic. Her father participated in a failed coup attempt against the dictator Rafael Trujillo, and exile to the United States was the only way to save his life. The family settled in New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the business of assimilation--a lifelong struggle. Loss of her native land, language, culture, and extended family formed the thematic basis for two of Julia Alvarez's three best-selling novels--How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and its sequel, Yo! Her father's revolutionary ties inspired In, The Time Of The Butterflies, her historical novel about one of Trujillo's most infamous atrocities. Something To Declare offers an extraordinary collection of essays that deal with the two big issues of Alvarez's life--growing up with one foot in each culture and writing. The twelve essays that make up "Customs," the first of two parts, examine the specific effects of exile on this writer. The essays are personal--how her maternal grandfather passed along his love of the arts, how the nuclear family-in-exile snuggled down every year to watch the Miss America contest from the parental bed, how Julia feared her family might disown her upon publication of her first novel. In the second half, "Declarations," are twelve essays about writing that range from confession of Alvarez's means of supporting her writing habit to the gritty details of her actual process. Every one of these essays is warm, open, honest, and generous. Something To Declare will appeal not only to her many fans, but to students of writing at all levels.
000337541 60010 $$aAlvarez, Julia$$xAuthorship.
000337541 650_0 $$aWomen and literature$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000337541 650_0 $$aDominican Americans$$xIntellectual life.
000337541 650_0 $$aDominican Americans in literature.
000337541 651_0 $$aDominican Republic$$xIn literature.
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