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- Similar to In the Time of the Butterflies, Alvarez's debut novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), centers on the lives of four sisters. This semi-autobiographical piece illustrates their challenges as Dominican immigrants in the United States and as women.
- Published in 1998, Something to Declare is a collection of personal essays by Alvarez. The book explores various facets of her life, including her quest for information about the Mirabal sisters in "Chasing the Butterflies" and the influence of Trujillo on her family in "Genetics of Justice."
- Alvarez was inspired by Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior (1976). This celebrated work, based on Kingston's experiences, highlights Chinese cultural expectations such as gender restrictions and the perceived dangers of storytelling, challenges that contemporary Chinese-American women face.
- Edwidge Danticat's 1998 novel, The Farming of Bones, uses fiction to depict the impact of Trujillo's 1937 massacre of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic.
- In her poem "Parsley," Rita Dove evokes the terror of Trujillo's 1937 massacre and creates a psychological profile of the dictator. She emphasizes the test Trujillo's men used to determine who would be killed: whether a person could correctly pronounce the Spanish word for parsley.
- The Inhabited Woman by Nicaraguan author Gioconda Belli narrates the story of Lavinia, a successful woman inspired by the spirit of a female Indian warrior to resist gender restrictions and her country's military dictatorship. Kathleen March translated this work in 1994.
- Gabriel García Márquez's novel, The Autumn of the Patriarch, is a psychological exploration of a cruel, isolated, and paranoid Latin American dictator. The novel, known for its complex structure and "stream-of-consciousness" style, is challenging to read. The first U.S. edition was published in 1976 and translated by Gregory Rabassa.
- Niccolo Machiavelli's famous work, The Prince, which appeared in English in 1907, outlines methods for maintaining political power. The book is renowned for its pragmatic, often ruthless approach to political problems, disregarding abstract rights and morality.
- Adolf Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (translated as My Battle) before ascending to power in Germany. The book offers a chilling insight into racial hatred and Hitler's vision for sustaining an authoritarian society.
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