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How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Author	: Julia Alvarez
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Release Date	: 2004
ISBN 10	: 0747572658
Pages	: 320 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (58 users)

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Download or read book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yolanda Garcia is taking a trip to the Dominican Republic to revisit the country where she was born, and which her family was forced to flee for New York when she was a child. As they try to immerse themselves in the American way of life, Yolande and her three sisters will always see things through Dominican eyes.

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

Author	: Julia Alvarez
Publisher	: Plume Books
Release Date	: 2005
ISBN 10	: 0452287073
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (73 users)

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Download or read book How the García Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to flee their native Caribbean island after an attempted coup, the Garcias--Carlos, Laura, and their four daughters--must learn a new way of life in the Bronx, while trying to cling to the old ways that they loved.

A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Author	: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher	: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date	: 2015-03-13
ISBN 10	: 9781410336002
Pages	: 15 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (36 users)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Author	: Julia Alvarez
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2010-01-12
ISBN 10	: 9781616200985
Pages	: 304 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (9 users)

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Download or read book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Poignant . . . Powerful . . . Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." —The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America. Julia Alvarez’s new novel, Afterlife, is available now.

Julia Alvarez

Author	: Silvio Sirias
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2001
ISBN 10	: 0313309930
Pages	: 192 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book Julia Alvarez written by Silvio Sirias and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an introduction to the life and works of Dominican-American writer Julia Alvarez and analyzes the thematic and cultural concerns that are addressed in her novels.

CLASSICS How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Author	: Julia Alvarez
Publisher	:
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: LCCN:91045863
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (458 users)

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Download or read book CLASSICS How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Author	: Julia Alvarez
Publisher	: Turtleback Books
Release Date	: 1992-06-01
ISBN 10	: 0606252703
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eagerly embracing their new American culture in Miami, the four Garcia women iron their hair, smoke cigarettes, date American men, forget their Spanish, and lose their accents, all in their journey toward adulthood

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

Author	: Julia Alvarez
Publisher	: Turtleback
Release Date	: 2010
ISBN 10	: 1606868381
Pages	: 0 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (81 users)

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Download or read book How the García Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen interrelated stories, unfolding back in time from 1989 to 1956, explore the dilemmas of four Latinas uprooted from a privileged island life and thrown into the unyielding big city.

Summarized and Analyzed: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Student World

Author	: Student World
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2017-10-25
ISBN 10	: 1973148730
Pages	: 66 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (3 users)

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Download or read book Summarized and Analyzed: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Student World written by Student World and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" is considered as Julia Alvarez's most notable work. The story describes the protagonist's life in the Dominican Republic, in the United States, and what difficulties the members of the family had to face when they lived initially in the United States as immigrants.This book was first published in 1991. The writing style is notable particularly because the story is narrated from the reverse chronological order. There are shifting perspectives in the narration of the story.

Women in Literature

Author	: Michael B. Snyder
Publisher	: Greenwood Publishing Group
Release Date	: 2003
ISBN 10	: 0313313466
Pages	: 406 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (66 users)

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Download or read book Women in Literature written by Michael B. Snyder and published by Greenwood Publishing Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh insights and interpretations makes these 96 original essays a valuable examination of gender issues in both canonical and contemporary works.

A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Author	: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2017-07-25
ISBN 10	: 1375398423
Pages	: 46 pages
Rating	: 4.9/5 (23 users)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Cengage Learning Gale and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Julia Alvarez's "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Critical Insights: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Author	: Julia Alvarez
Publisher	: Salem Press
Release Date	: 2021-02
ISBN 10	: 1642657441
Pages	: 300 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (41 users)

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Download or read book Critical Insights: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by Salem Press. This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Alvarez's 1991 novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is an important contribution to recent Latinx and multicultural literature. Exhibiting an intriguing structure and dealing with themes such as initiation and maturation that are relevant to people everywhere and in all eras, the novel is also significant for its treatment of women, immigrants, and recent socioeconomic, political, and cultural issues. This volume explores the different dimensions of Alvarez's novel, setting it in various relevant contexts while also giving due attention to its impressive artistic achievements.

The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle

Author	: James Nagel
Publisher	: LSU Press
Release Date	: 2004-04-01
ISBN 10	: 0807129615
Pages	: 316 pages
Rating	: 4.2/5 (15 users)

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Download or read book The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle written by James Nagel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Nagel offers the first systematic history and definition of the short-story cycle as exemplified in contemporary American fiction, bringing attention to the format's wide appeal among various ethnic groups. He examines in detail eight recent manifestations of the genre, all praised by critics while uniformly misidentified as novels. Nagel proposes that the short-story cycle, with its concentric as opposed to linear plot development possibilities, lends itself particularly well to exploring themes of ethnic assimilation, which mirror some of the major issues facing American society today.

Intersections of Harm

Author	: Laura Halperin
Publisher	: Rutgers University Press
Release Date	: 2015-07-13
ISBN 10	: 9780813573021
Pages	: 254 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (73 users)

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Download or read book Intersections of Harm written by Laura Halperin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas’ minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm. Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritza Pérez, Ana Castillo, Cristina García, and Julia Alvarez, she argues that the individual harm experienced by Latinas needs to be understood in relation to the collective histories of aggression against their communities. Intersections of Harm is more than just a nuanced examination of the intersections among race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. It also explores the intersections of deviance and defiance, individual and collective, and mind, body, and place. Halperin proposes that, ironically, the harmful ascriptions of Latina deviance are tied to the hopeful expressions of Latina defiance. While the Latina protagonists’ defiance feeds into the labels of deviance imposed on them, it also fuels the protagonists’ ability to resist such harmful treatment. In this analysis, Halperin broadens the parameters of literary studies of female madness, as she compels us to shift our understanding of where madness lies. She insists that the madness readily attributed to individual Latinas is entwined with the madness of institutional structures of oppression, and she maintains that psychological harm is bound together with physical and geopolitical harm. In her pan-Latina study, Halperin shows how each writer’s work emerges from a unique set of locales and histories, but she also traces a network of connections among them. Bringing together concepts from feminism, postcolonialism, illness studies, and ecocriticism, Intersections of Harm opens up exciting new avenues for Latina/o studies.

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Group Set

Author	: Booksource, The
Publisher	:
Release Date	: 2009-08-01
ISBN 10	: 1411712102
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (2 users)

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The importance of language in cross-cultural identity production

Author	: Michael Elberth
Publisher	: GRIN Verlag
Release Date	: 2011-01-11
ISBN 10	: 9783640796809
Pages	: 4 pages
Rating	: 4.4/5 (968 users)

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Download or read book The importance of language in cross-cultural identity production written by Michael Elberth and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2010 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, TU Dortmund, language: English, abstract: At the centre of Julia Alvarez’s novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents stands the Dominican girl Yolanda, who moved to America as a youth. Since then, she has often been back in the Dominican Republic to visit her family and maintain a close link to her cultural origin. Yolanda’s identity is strongly influenced by the two cultures, which makes her a cultural hybrid. This essay will show the important role that language plays in the production of cross-cultural identity as can be seen in the development of Yolanda. Furthermore, the essay will only focus on her English language development in the American environment, excluding the scenes where Yolanda is back in the Dominican Republic for visits.

Trailing Clouds

Author	: David Cowart
Publisher	: Cornell University Press
Release Date	: 2018-07-05
ISBN 10	: 9781501727054
Pages	: 264 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (27 users)

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Download or read book Trailing Clouds written by David Cowart and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We stand to learn much about the durability of or changes in the American way of life from writers such as Bharati Mukherjee (born in India), Ursula Hegi (born in Germany), Jerzy Kosinski (born in Poland), Jamaica Kincaid (born in Antigua), Cristina Garcia (born in Cuba), Edwidge Danticat (born in Haiti), Wendy Law-Yone (born in Burma), Mylène Dressler (born in the Netherlands), Lan Cao (born in Vietnam), and such Korean-born authors as Chang-rae Lee, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Nora Okja Keller—writers who in recent years have come to this country and, in their work, contributed to its culture."—David Cowart In Trailing Clouds, David Cowart offers fresh insights into contemporary American literature by exploring novels and short stories published since 1970 by immigrant writers. Balancing historical and social context with close readings of selected works, Cowart explores the major themes raised in immigrant writing: the acquisition of language, the dual identity of the immigrant, the place of the homeland, and the nature of citizenship. Cowart suggests that the attention to first-generation writers (those whose parents immigrated) has not prepared us to read the fresher stories of those more recent arrivals whose immigrant experience has been more direct and unmediated. Highlighting the nuanced reflection in immigrant fiction of a nation that is ever more diverse and multicultural, Cowart argues that readers can learn much about the changes in the American way of life from writers who have come to this country, embraced its culture, and penned substantial literary work in English.