In the Name of Salome | Literary Precedents
Two of Alvarez's earlier works are especially useful in understanding her techniques and themes in the present work. In the Time of the Butterflies and YO!, in particular, emphasize the importance of family stories, whether directly from the oral tradition or as recovered from journals, diaries, and letters, in telling family members, as well as others, of the journey of the family and how it got where it is as part of its homeland, as a family, and as individual members of that family. Both YO! and In the Name of Salome are in many ways "metafiction," that...
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