Isabel Allende / editor, John Rodden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Critical insightsPublication details: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.Description: xi, 366 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781587656996 (alk. paper)
  • 158765699X (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PQ 8098.1 .L54 Z696 2011
Contents:
On Isabel Allende / John Rodden -- Biography of Isabel Allende / Amanda Hopkinson -- The Paris Review perspective / Michael Wood for The Paris Review -- "Un pu�nado de cr�iticos": navigating the critical readings of Isabel Allende's work / Beth E. J�orgensen -- The house of the spirits: a twentieth-century family chronicle / Charles Rossman -- Maryse Cond�e and Isabel Allende: family saga novels / Mar�ia Roof -- Voices from the political abyss: Isabel Allende's The house of the spirits and the reconstruction and preservation of history and memory in 1970s Chile and beyond / Carrie Sheffield -- Family systems and national subversion in Isabel Allende's The house of the spirits / Sara E. Cooper -- Magical places in Isabel Allende's Eva luna and Cuentos de Eva Luna / Barbara Foley Buedel -- Mourning becomes Paula: the writing process as therapy for Isabel Allende / Linda S. Maier -- The metaphysics of mother/daughter renewal in La casa de los esp�iritus and Paula / Cherie Meacham -- Isabel Allende, fortune's daughter / John Rodden -- La hija de la fortuna: cross-dressing, travel, and gendering the self / Nadia Avenda�no -- Self-portrait in sepia? Isabel Allende's technicolored life / John Rodden -- Isabel Allende in context: the erasure of boundaries / Linda Gould Levine -- Archetype, not ideology: Isabel Allende's balance of opposites / Vincent Kling -- Z/z: Isabel Allende and the mark of Zorro / Philip Swanson -- Unscrambling Allende's "Dos palabras": The self, the immigrant/writer, and social justice / Luz Mar�ia Umpierre -- The cultural work of magical realism in three young adult novels / Don Latham -- "I am inventing myself all the time": Isabel Allende in her interviews / John Rodden.
Summary: A collection of twenty essays that offers insight into the personal life and work of author Isabel Allende.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

On Isabel Allende / John Rodden -- Biography of Isabel Allende / Amanda Hopkinson -- The Paris Review perspective / Michael Wood for The Paris Review -- "Un pu�nado de cr�iticos": navigating the critical readings of Isabel Allende's work / Beth E. J�orgensen -- The house of the spirits: a twentieth-century family chronicle / Charles Rossman -- Maryse Cond�e and Isabel Allende: family saga novels / Mar�ia Roof -- Voices from the political abyss: Isabel Allende's The house of the spirits and the reconstruction and preservation of history and memory in 1970s Chile and beyond / Carrie Sheffield -- Family systems and national subversion in Isabel Allende's The house of the spirits / Sara E. Cooper -- Magical places in Isabel Allende's Eva luna and Cuentos de Eva Luna / Barbara Foley Buedel -- Mourning becomes Paula: the writing process as therapy for Isabel Allende / Linda S. Maier -- The metaphysics of mother/daughter renewal in La casa de los esp�iritus and Paula / Cherie Meacham -- Isabel Allende, fortune's daughter / John Rodden -- La hija de la fortuna: cross-dressing, travel, and gendering the self / Nadia Avenda�no -- Self-portrait in sepia? Isabel Allende's technicolored life / John Rodden -- Isabel Allende in context: the erasure of boundaries / Linda Gould Levine -- Archetype, not ideology: Isabel Allende's balance of opposites / Vincent Kling -- Z/z: Isabel Allende and the mark of Zorro / Philip Swanson -- Unscrambling Allende's "Dos palabras": The self, the immigrant/writer, and social justice / Luz Mar�ia Umpierre -- The cultural work of magical realism in three young adult novels / Don Latham -- "I am inventing myself all the time": Isabel Allende in her interviews / John Rodden.

A collection of twenty essays that offers insight into the personal life and work of author Isabel Allende.

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