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