Talking Back to El Jefe: Genre, Polyphony, and Dialogic Resistance in Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of Butterflies
Dominican American author Julia Alvarez's novel "In the Time of the Butterflies" is based upon the well-known Dominican story of the Mirabal sisters. Rich discusses how this novel coincides strongly with Mikhail Bakhtin's discussions of the generic characteristics, polyphonic dis...
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