TY - BOOK AU - Rodden,John TI - Isabel Allende T2 - Critical insights SN - 9781587656996 (alk. paper) AV - PQ 8098.1 .L54 Z696 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Pasadena, Calif. PB - Salem Press KW - Allende, Isabel N1 - 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 N2 - A collection of twenty essays that offers insight into the personal life and work of author Isabel Allende ER -