Reading the spirits in Julia Alvarez’s A Wedding in Haiti.
Dominican writer Julia Alvarez’s 2012 memoir,A Wedding in Haiti: The Story of a Friendship, documents her first-time travel from the Dominican Republic to Haiti over land in order to attend the wedding of Piti, a young Haitian man who had worked for her and her husband for a number of years. She dep...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Iberian & Latin American Studies Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 233 - 255 |
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