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What do Scholars Say?

diasporic_dominican.pdf
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Kelly Adams, Democracy, Interrupted: Commissioning the “Truth” in Diasporic Dominican American Literature." 
In this article, Adams discusses how Alvarez's novel acts as a way of bringing the past to the present--a way of bringing "the dead from silence."

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Crystal Parikh, "Regular Revolutions: Feminist Travels in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies."
In this article, Parikh argues the ways in which Alvarez's novels convey Latin American female subjection and agency.

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Ibis Gomez Vega, "Radicalizing Good Catholic Girls: Shattering the 'Old World' Order in Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies."
Vega interrogates the intersections of radical justice, Catholicism, and gender in this article that places the Mirabal sisters within the context of Catholic Dominican women.

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Maria Cristina Rodriguez, "Political Authority Figures as Distant Memories of a Forgotten Past: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and In the Name of Salomé and Cristina García's The Agüero Sisters"
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Rodriguez analyzes how In the Time of the Butterflies rewrites history, blurring the lines between past and present, history and memory.
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