Yo!
| Publisher | University of Oklahoma |
| Publication | World Literature Today |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0196-3570 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | v71 |
| Issue | n4 |
| Published | 1997-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Reviewee | n/a | Julia Alvarez |
| Author | n/a | Cynthia Tompkins |
Julia Alvarez's novel !Yo! is a delightfully humorous exploration of cross-cultural and feminist issues. The pleasure increases, however, by following the Cervantine self-reflexive gesture which creates a thematic counterpoint with her first novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1991; see WLT 66:3, p. 516). Alvarez's focus shifts from the sisters' early childhood in the Dominican Republic and the experience of exile growing up in New York to a retrospective assessment of their choices from a middle-age vantage point.
Stylistically reminiscent of Sandra Cisneros's House...
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