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Journey To Alien Worlds Torrent
The fictional characters in Julia Alvarez's 1992 novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents are in between worlds, navigating the boundaries between the Dominican Republic and the United States. Alvarez inverts the chronological structure of the narrative, beginning with Yolanda Garcia de la Torre's account of returning to visit her relatives in the Dominican Republic as an adult and ending with Yolanda as a child narrating an early memory of life in the de la Torre compound on the Island. The Garcia family--the four daughters in particular--must learn to navigate concentric circles of familial identification: each girl's identity as an individual, the four girls within their immediate family framework, and the whole family within the larger scope of the relationship between the Dominican Republic and the United States. Within these circles, issues of language, particularly naming and speechlessness, economic status (or lack thereof), and sexuality intertwine as the family struggles to negotiate its place within various spaces. The members of the Garcia de la Torre family exist in liminal spaces, constantly negotiating boundaries and borders. Applying sociological concepts such as Elaine Neil Orr's "stranger selves," Katarzyna Marciniak's "alienhood," and Nestor Garcia Canclini's "native foreigners," among others, to the Garcia's lives allows for a reading of the text as an exploration of what it means to be "transnational." As Alvarez leads the reader on a journey into the past, however, it remains unclear whether, for the Garcia de la Torres, their transnational identities are a source of power or a site of irreconcilable fragmentation. 2ff7e9595c
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