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	::::::::MARIKA PREZIUSO: JULIA ALVAREZ:::::::::
		Alvarez’s constant preoccupation with language – both with the spoken word and the written sign - and with exploring the limits of the fictional means, is resulting from her personal history of migration and dislocation, but also from the sense of discovery and the possibilities implicit in her “Latina” status.
		Julia Alvarez certainly falls in the “Latino” category because she experienced a double migration, first from NY to the DR soon after she was born and, at the age of nine, from the DR back to the US, after her father took part in a failed attack against Trujillo.
		Alvarez plays with but eventually reaffirms the Dominican national imaginary, in which Trujillo is at once the individualised and metonymic presence, whereas women occupy the generalised and generic metaphorical place of the national territory that needs to be safeguarded by the dictator, thus they are never subjects in their own merit.
	www.cielonaranja.com /preziuso.htm (3405 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| SOMETHING TO DECLARE by Julia Alvarez
		Alvarez's doctor father is a lone, proud man among five women; at peace with his family and yet rooted in his culture's code of male privilege and domination.
		Alvarez's mother tries to keep her four girls from plunging headlong into a culture that mocks the rules of the old world and la familiaóa land of private schools, rebellion, boyfriends, bell-bottoms, marriages, divorces, and careers as farfetched as a that of a writer living in Vermont.
		It was Scheherazade who gave Alvarez the courage to explore the cross currents of sexual politics in the Caribbean and introduced her to the power storytelling gave her within her culture and family.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/something_to_declare.asp (799 words)

	Las Mujeres :: Julia Alvarez
		Through the mediums of poetry and prose, Julia Alvarez recreates the feelings of loss she experienced after her immigration to the United States, when she was ten years Old.
		While seemingly an ideal arrangement, Alvarez's grandmother made life difficult for her daughter and son in law, a doctor who ran the nearby hospital and whom the revolution had now reduced to poverty.
		Alvarez's uncles had all attended Ivy League colleges and her grandfather was a cultural attach to the United Nations.
	www.lasmujeres.com /juliaalvarez/profile.shtml (736 words)

	MPR: Author Julia Alvarez thrives in two worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Author Julia Alvarez balances two very different worlds -- in her life and in her new novel, "Saving the World." Alvarez grew up in a large family in the Dominican Republic, but moved to the U.S. at the age of 10.
		Alvarez, who was born in the U.S. but spent her first 10 years in the Dominican Republic, doesn't want to be known as a Latina writer.
		While Julia Alvarez lives much of the year in Vermont, even calls herself a Vermont writer at times, she frequently returns to the hills of her beloved Dominican Republic.
	minnesota.publicradio.org /display/web/2006/04/12/juliaalvarez (758 words)

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		Although Julia Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950, her family moved to the Dominican Republic shortly after her birth, and it was there that she spent the majority of her childhood.
		In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her family emigrated to the United States, fleeing the Dominican Republic because of Alvarez's father's involvement with an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Trujillo dictatorship.
		Alvarez has done a tremendous job of stating the problem in her beautifully written novels.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Alvarez.html (710 words)

	Review \| Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
		Alvarez gives her an age (36) and a past not that unusual in an era when smallpox regularly ravaged the globe: near-death at age 16 and a face seamed with scars.
		Alvarez alternates her fictional saga of the expedition with a modern saga of a woman superficially like herself: a Dominican-American novelist married to a gringo who lives in Vermont.
		Alvarez sets up a nice series of not-too-obvious parallels, with Alma donning a face mask at one point in unconscious imitation of Isabel's mantilla and trying to convince a group of rebellious Dominican adolescents that they, like Isabel's underprivileged orphans, could have a future.
	www.januarymagazine.com /fiction/saveworld.html (1084 words)

	PH@school: Literature: Author Biographies
		Julia Alvarez was born on March 27, 1950, in New York City, where her father was in the United States studying medicine.
		Alvarez based her next novel, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), on the true story of the Mirabal sisters, who were murdered by Trujillo's agents in 1960 for opposing the regime.
		The Alvarez family fled the country for political rather than economic reasons, and, although the family was not wealthy, they were members of the Dominican professional class.
	www.phschool.com /atschool/literature/author_biographies/alvarez_j.html (770 words)

	Poetry Authors in Depth - Julia Alverez - Meyer Literature
		Although Julia Alvarez was born in New York City, she lived in the Dominican Republic until she was ten years old.
		A new culture and new language sensitized Alvarez to her surroundings and her use of language so that emigration from the Dominican Republic to Queens was the beginning of her movement toward becoming a writer.
		Alvarez’s second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), is a fictional account of a true story concerning four sisters who opposed Trujillo’s dictatorship.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /literature/bedlit/authors_depth/alverez.htm (711 words)

	Alvarez to Give Reading September 7
		Raised in the Dominican Republic until the age of ten, Julia Alvarez and her family emigrated to the United States in 1960, a move prompted by her father's involvement in a failed coup against the Trujillo dictatorship.
		In 1979, Alvarez was the John Atherton Scholar in Poetry at the prestigious Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and was a fellow there in both poetry (1986) and fiction (1987).
		Alvarez's writings have been published in periodicals ranging from the New Yorker, the New York Times, Salon, and USA Today to the Washington Post Magazine, Hispanic Culture Review and American Scholar, and she is featured in the Norton Anthology of Contemporary Fiction.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /offices/comm/csj/083101/alvarez.shtml (929 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: Review - In the Name of Salomé
		Alvarez does not consider her book "biography, historical portraiture or even a record of all I learned, but a work of the imagination," according to her acknowledgments.
		Though celebrated during her lifetime, Alvarez offers a Salomé whose introversion, feelings of separation because of her skin color, and conflicted relationships with the men in her life exist as partial explanation for her near disappearance into the shadows of history.
		Alvarez unfolds the lives of Salomé and Camila in complementary chapters, alternating between the two lives with first person and an omniscient narrator.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=oid:77562 (510 words)

	About Julia T. Alvarez- World Assembly on Aging II
		About Julia T. Alvarez- World Assembly on Aging II Julia Tavares de Alvarez is Ambassador, Alternate Representative of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations.
		Born in the Dominican Republic, Ambassador Alvarez went to boarding school in Andover Massachusetts and later attended the Connecticut College in New London, where she majored in psychology and sociology.
		Julia Alvarez as "Ambassador of Aging" is a great asset to the United Nations and the world community in our age of longevity.
	www.globalaging.org /waa2/players/julia.htm (1761 words)

	UNM Press Books
		Johnson argues that through her narratives, poetry, and essays, Alvarez has sought to create "a cartography of identity in exile." Alvarez inscribes a geography of identity in her work that joins theory and narrative across multiple genres to create a new map of identity and culture.
		By asserting that she is "mapping a country that's not on the map," Alvarez places creativity and multiplicity at the center of this emerging cartography of identity.
		To Alvarez, linguistic and cultural multiplicity represents the reality of what it means to be American, and she offers a compelling vision of both self and community in which the homeland Alvarez seeks is the narrative space of her own writings.
	www.unmpress.com /Book.php?id=10554318564712 (287 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Alvarez, Julia
		Alvarez claims that being in the United States where she was surrounded by books, and where women were encouraged to discover their talents, contributed to her becoming an author.
		Alvarez was up to the challenge of writing from a perspective that was not Latina and not female; she says, "As Flaubert said, 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi!' We do become our characters: male, female; old, young; Anglo, Latina.
		Julia Alvarez's novel In the Name of Salome weaves the life and spirit of Salome Urena, and her reserved daughter, Salome Camila, through a journey of political unrest in the Dominican Republic.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/alvarez_julia.html (1613 words)

	Salon Mothers Who Think \| Something to declare
		Julia Alvarez was 10 years old when her family was forced to flee the Dominican Republic for the United States.
		Alvarez writes here about her large, boisterous and politically active family; her difficult move to the United States and her attempts to learn a new language; her years of bouncing from teaching job to teaching job, wondering if her fiction would ever see the light of day.
		Talking to Alvarez, who is now 48 and lives with her husband on their farm in Middlebury, Vt., you feel a similar vibe -- here's a serious woman who refuses to take herself, or anything else, too seriously.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/1998/09/25feature.html (1537 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Secret Footprints: Books: Julia Alvarez,Fabian Negrin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Making her children's book debut, Alvarez (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents) fulfills only some of the potential inherent in her story, which is based on an intriguing legend from the Dominican Republic, where she grew up.
		Julia Alvarez has transformed the mythic Dominican tale of the Ciguapa into a lush, dramatic story for all audiences to appreciate.
		I was fortunate enough to hear Alvarez read her first children's book to 80 second graders at the Carol Morgan School of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
	www.amazon.ca /Secret-Footprints-Julia-Alvarez/dp/0679893091 (933 words)

	Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Julia Alvarez
		When she was ten years old, Julia Alvarez's family had to flee the Dominican Republic because her father had been involved in a coup against dictator Trujillo.
		Julia Alvarez graduated from Middlebury College and received an MA in creative writing from Syracuse University.
		Julia Alvarez' latest book, IN THE NAME OF SALOME, is based on fact but spun with her talented fictional fingers.
	www.bookreporter.com /authors/au-alvarez-julia.asp (4749 words)

	RETANET \| Contemporary Latina Writers: Julia Alvarez
		Julia Alvarez is a contemporary Dominican American writer, whose first book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, speaks to young people in many ways because it concerns the relationships between parents and children, immigration to another culture, and the difficulties in coming of age.
		The approach of this project is to learn about Julia Alvarez by the students' conducting research into her life, criticism of her work, and reading and discussing her work.
		One starting point is for the teacher to talk briefly about Julia Alvarez and read a portion of her work to whet the students' appetitite for more.
	retanet.unm.edu /article.pl?sid=03/05/18/2007111 (2181 words)

	Ninth Book of Junior Authors & Illustrators Sample Profile: Julia Alvarez
		Although Julia Alvarez was born in New York City, her physician father moved the family to the Dominican Republic shortly after her birth.
		Alvarez’s first adult novel, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, tells the story of four sisters who, like the author and her family, emigrated to New York from the Dominican Republic and struggled to find an identity between two disparate cultures.
		Alvarez writes in a variety of genres and has published essays, stories, and poems in The New York Times Magazine, Allure, The New Yorker, Hispanic Magazine, Latina, USA Weekend, The Washington Post Magazine, and The American Scholar, among others.
	www.hwwilson.com /Print/jrauthorbk_9th_alvarez.htm (1231 words)

	Amazon.ca: In the Time of the Butterflies: Books: Julia Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alvarez breathes life into these historical figures--known as "las mariposas," or "the butterflies," in the underground--as she imagines their teenage years, their gradual involvement with the revolution, and their terror as their dissentience is uncovered.
		Alvarez's controlled writing perfectly captures the mounting tension as "the butterflies" near their horrific end.
		Alvarez captures the terrorized atmosphere of a police state, in which people live under the sword of terrible fear and atrocities cannot be acknowledged.
	www.amazon.ca /Time-Butterflies-Julia-Alvarez/dp/0613023897 (1398 words)

	Amazon.com: Something to Declare: Essays: Books: Julia Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alvarez also includes her "ten commandments" for writing, which consist of some of the author's favorite quotes (beginning with a Zen saying and ending with Samuel Johnson's well-known credo, "If you want to be a writer, then write.
		Alvarez has mined deeply into her childhood in Dominican Republic and her family's flight from Trujillo to Queens, NY, as sources for her lyrical fiction and poetry.
		Alvarez had a lot of great material from her childhood, growing up the daughter of a revolutionary who was part of the opposition against Trujillo, the former dictator of the Dominican Republic.
	www.amazon.com /Something-Declare-Essays-Julia-Alvarez/dp/1565121937 (1570 words)

	Julia Álvarez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Julia Álvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a poet, novelist, and essayist.
		Alvarez was writer-in-residence for the Kentucky Arts Commission from 1975 to 1977.
		Alvarez taught English and creative writing at California State University, Fresno, College of the Sequoias, Phillips Andover Academy, University of Vermont, George Washington University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before coming to Middlebury College as an assistant professor in 1985.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Julia_Alvarez (509 words)

	Collected Works Bookstore - Julia Alvarez
		Julia Alvarez is a poet, essayist and fiction writer who was born in New York City.
		When she was one month old, she returned with her parents and spent her childhood in the Dominican Republic, emigrating to this country and language at the age of ten.
		Alvarez lives in Vermont, where she is writer-in-residence at Middlebury College.
	www.collectedworksbookstore.com /page.cfm?merchantpageID=174 (457 words)

	Amazon.com: !Yo!: Books: Julia Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The opening chapter of Alvarez's splendid sequel to her first novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, is so exuberant and funny, delivered in such rattle-and-snap dialogue, that readers will think they are in for a romp.
		Alvarez's canny, often tart-tongued appraisals of two contrasting cultures, her inspired excursions into the hearts of her vividly realized characters, are a triumph of imaginative virtuosity.
		This is the first Julia Alvarez book I've read, so I cannot compare it to her other work, but "Yo!" certainly is capable of standing on its own as a work of fiction.
	www.amazon.com /Yo-Julia-Alvarez/dp/0452279186 (2135 words)

	Maiden Voyages: Women Fiction Writers, 1775-present
		When Julia was only ten, her family fled to the United States to escape death at the hands of the dictator, Trujillo.
		In 1991 Julia finally published a novel at the young age of 41 (which she is happy to point out to discouraged 19-year-olds!).
		Julia has always followed where the wind has led her--both in her writing and in her life.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~tjodon/alvarez.html (573 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: In Person: Julia Alvarez
		For Julia Alvarez fans, the title of her new book of poetry, The Woman I Kept to Myself (Algonquin, $18.95), might seem puzzling.
		Though her work is not overtly autobiographical, the label clings to her, perhaps because she acknowledges the influences from life growing up in the Dominican Republic, while embracing the life of letters she discovered as an immigrant in the States.
		Alvarez graciously listened with rapt attention, signed their books with a small flourish and an occasional mi cariño before sending the ardent readers off to fall in love with her work all over again.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2004-04-23/books_inperson.html (439 words)

	Julia Alvarez Biography
		Alvarez was born in New York City on March 27, 1950, the second of four daughters.
		Shortly thereafter, the family moved to the Dominican Republic, where her parents were involved in an underground movement to overthrow Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo.
		When the movement was discovered, the Alvarez family was forced to flee to escape imprisonment and possible death.
	www.enotes.com /time-butterflies/11853 (196 words)

	Julia Alvarez — Infoplease.com
		The writing of Julia Alvarez incorporates her vivid memories of childhood in the Dominican Republic, which her family fled in 1960, and the subsequent adjustment to a new life in New York City.
		Alvarez first made her mark as a poet but is best known for her novels, particularly the award-winning
		Third time's the charm: novelist Julia Alvarez was married twice before--and couldn't wait to get divorced.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0882796.html (310 words)

	Silvio Sirias: A Review of Julia Alvarezâs Â¡Yo!â”Revisited
		Julia Alvarez is the writer that holds the greatest influence over me. In my own work, I try to emulate her.
		In the novel, the pain of expatriation resides alongside the joys of the charactersâ discovery of their new selves as they adapt, seldom without considerable trauma, to a new country, a new culture, and a new language.
		In her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), Alvarez brings to her American readers the moving story of the Mirabal sisters, code name Las Mariposas, whose deaths at the hands of Rafael Trujilloâs henchmen marked the beginning of the end of the second-longest one-man dictatorship in the history of the Americas.
	silviosirias.com /2006/02/review-of-julia-alvarezs-yorevisited.html (802 words)

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