SOURCE: "Mask and Mirror: Isabel Allende's Mechanism for Justice in The House of the Spirits," in Postcolonial Literature and the Biblical Call for Justice, University Press of Mississippi, 1994, pp. 74-90.
Kovach is an American educator and critic who has written works on such subjects as ethnic American literature and literary theory. In the following essay, she examines the ways in which Allende propagates a "prophetic vision of female integrity and justice" in The House of the Spirits, focusing on the role of memories in the book and Allende's narrative strategies.
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