![]() ![]() "To this day, after three decades of living in America," sheĬoncedes, "I feel like a stranger in what I now consider my ownĬountry. Spanish to sustain it, Alvarez realizes that English has become theĪlvarez credits her career to the creative alienation of exile. When an adolescent romance disintegrates for lack of In 24 autobiographical essays, the author presents her Dominican childhood, her familys immigration to the United States, her college years, writing, marriages, & return trips to her homeland. ![]() The language of Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, and Maxine She relates the stow, told in supple American English, of how, afterīeing wrenched from her native Spanish, she eventually finds a home in New York City, we became spics who spoke English with an accent." Privileged lives of his wife and four daughters. TheĬhatter of family maids most helped her find her narrative voice.Īlvarez was 10 when, in 1960, her physician father, who had plottedĪgainst dictator Rafael Trujillo, fled to the U.S., upending the stable, Storytelling, but also demands reticence in well-bred daughters. Revelation, she explains, derives from a Latin culture that cherishes ![]() Imparts innocent intelligence about its twice-divorced author, now How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of theĪlvarez confesses fondness for gossip, and Something to Declare The volume brings togetherĢ4 personal essays that constitute the artistic credo of an author whoseįiction and poetry already speak for themselves. Two decades and six books later, Something to Declare serves toĪffirm Alvarez's assertion of vocation. "What have you written? Anything I've heard of?" Under 30Īnd unpublished, Alvarez replied, "Not yet." When she scrawled in "writer," a customs officer asked: Her native Dominican Republic required travelers to specify occupation. (**) Good The form that Julia Alvarez was handed after a visit to Something to Declare by Julia Alvarez / Algonquin Books of Chapel 1999 Society for the Advancement of Education 10 Aug. MLA style: "Something to Declare." The Free Library. ![]()
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