Race, Class, and Masculinity in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
In How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (1992), Julia Alvarez narrates the story of immigration and exile of a prominent Dominican family who moves to New York City in the 1960s. The narrative's privileging of the multiple perspectives of the four sisters—Yolanda, Sofia, Carla, and Sandra—has res...
| Publicado en: | Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 1 - 21 |
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University of Nebraska Press
2022
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