Moving from Linda Hutcheon’s definition of “historiographic metafiction” as a form of literary representation that attempts at a combination of feminist epistemology and postmodernist techniques, Brownargues that Alvarez’s novel falls into this category bymaking “historically and thus politically public” what was “fictively personal” of the Mirabal sisters For the purpose of my critical analysis I will locate the novel in the interstices between an experimental ‘testimonio’, a national epic written in the form of a family ‘romance’, and a literary ‘revision’ of Dominican ‘gendered’ nationalism.īy exploring some of the novel’s linguistic strategies as well as its self-reflectiveness and its public configuration of private spaces, I will prove Alvarez’s negotiation of history and fiction as a metaphor for her own ‘hybrid’ subjectivity: The present article intends to challenge the definition of Dominican - American author Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Times of the Butterflies (1994), as a model of “historiographic metafiction” as given by Isobel Brown. what emerges from this is nothing like an uncomplicated, dehistoricised, undynamic, uncontraddictory past. it is not just a fact that has been waiting to ground our identities. There is a past to be learned about, but…it has to be grasped as a history, as something that has to be told. PhD student in Comparative Caribbean Literature “Local Touch – Global Reach” ?Julia Alvarez’s Mirabal sisters between Dominican Myths, (Failed) Feminist Icons and National Metaphors.
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