The Nation, May 6th, 1991
Defiant magic feminism challenges all our conventional notions of time, place, matter and identity in Rosario Ferre's spectacular new book, The Youngest Doll, first published in Spanish in 1976 as Papeles de Pandora and now deftly translated into English primarily by the author herself. Magic realism electro-charged with feminist awareness fuels a constellation of Latin American writers I call the magic feminists-luminaries like Isabel Allende, Luisa Valenzuela and Clarice Lispector, in addition to Ferre. Latin America's male magic realists have long juxtaposed the impossible with the quotid...
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