Kittens in the Oven: Race Relations, Traumatic Memory, and the Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

The search for an ever-elusive home is a thread that runs throughout much literature by authorswho have immigrated to the United States. Dominican authors are particularly susceptible to thissearch for a home because “for many Dominicans, home is synonymous with political and/oreconomic repression a...

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Main Author: Natalie Carter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AesthetixMS: Aesthetics Media Services 2010-08-01
Series:Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
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Online Access:http://rupkatha.com/V2/n3/kittensintheoven.pdf