Something to Declare (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Julia Alvarez
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Essays
- Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1990’s
- Setting: The Dominican Republic; Queens, New York; Wisconsin; Vermont; Illinois
- Principal Characters: Julia Alvarez, Bill, Papi, Mami, Utcho, Betty, Dilita, Carmen, Manuel Gustavo
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Family or family life, Authors or writers, Marriage, Writing, Ethnic relations, Immigration or emigration, Acculturation, Home
- Locales: Illinois, Wisconsin, Dominican Republic, Vermont, Queens, NY
In her three novels, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and ¡Yo! (1997), all of them autobiographical, Julia Alvarez tells of how she and her family, persecuted during the regime of Dominican strongman Rafael Trujillo, were forced from their country and resettled in Queens, New York during the 1960’s, when she was in her teens. Julia’s family moved from a position of privilege in their native country to one of marginal existence and frequent humiliation in the family’s adopted home.
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