Julia Álvarez | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 13 pages of analysis & critique of Julia Álvarez.

Julia Álvarez | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 13 pages of analysis & critique of Julia Álvarez.
This section contains 3,671 words
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SOURCE: An interview, in The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 12, No. 2, March, 1992, pp. 9-10.

Wiley is an American educator and critic who has written works on feminism and drama. In the following interview, Alvarez discusses such subjects as her identity as a Latina, the Women's movement, and her family.

[Wiley]: You've said that maybe what we are doing is moving forward in a circle, in reference to women's issues, I think.

[Alvarez]: About plot and about how we tell stories, about how women are [supposed to be] relational instead of directional. We think of others, of the whole network and how, in the traditional household, everyone's being taken care of, so we think relationally. I was talking about the plot as a quilt, which is a way that I think a lot of women experience plot, as opposed to the hero directed on his adventures and conquering things and getting...

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