In the Time of the Butterflies (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Julia Alvarez
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, Family or family life, Caribbean, Power, personal or social, Politics, Murder or homicide, Middle classes, Revolutions, Courage, Social issues, Brothers and sisters, Oppression, Farms, farmers, or farming, Adultery, Sisters, Assassination, Heroes or heroism, Martyrs or martyrdom, Totalitarianism, Sacrifice, Dominican Republican or Dominicans, Activism
- Locales: Dominican Republic
Alvarez had long desired to learn more about the Marabel sisters revered in the Dominican Republic. They were murdered in 1960, the same year that the Alvarez family fled to New York. In the Time of the Butterflies, based on historical facts, is an imaginative rendering of the incidents that transformed three ordinary women into unrelenting fighters against oppression.
The plot is neatly framed by the visit of an American journalist of Dominican origin to Dedé, the surviving sister. Dedé, accustomed to a stream of curious visitors to her little museum, wearily responds...
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