Old Heroines (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Julia Alvarez
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Narrative/verse essay
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
The Poem
In “Old Heroines” and in the other poems in her first collection, published when she was thirty-four, Julia Alvarez tests, develops, and polishes the incipient feminist voice that emerged clearly in her subsequent novels, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), Yo! (1997), and, most particularly, In the Name of Salome (2000). In her afterword to the 1996 edition of Homecoming, Alvarez claimed, “The only models I had been given by my mother and aunts and the heroines of novels were...
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