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In the Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez

Introduction

The novel “In the Name of Salome” by Julia Alvarez is focused on two major women: a Salome Urena, Dominican poet best known nineteenth and her daughter, Camila Henriquez Urena, prominent writer and teacher committed to the issue of feminism in the twentieth century. The novel fluctuates between two areas: public life, associated with a convulsive century revolts characterized by military and the private events related to social and cultural life. The objective of this work deal with such aspects of the fields of private and public conflicts, documentable, that the novel raises two distant points in time which correspond to the visions of the female characters axes speech.

The premise of gender differently validates the interaction of events and actions that make this rewriting of history. The novel has two looks in relativism chronologically different times and/or disallows the dominant discourse, providing social and political relevance to those voices that acquire significance in both their commitment to building a Latin American feminist language (Penguin.com, 2012), while preserving their identity.

Discussion

Two women, two stories, two destinations

Julia Alvarez from the testimony of two women going to realize the history of Henriquez Urena's family, prominent figures from the cultural world and Dominican projection unavoidable, in different proportions, the Latin scholar field. Through the voices of Salome and Camila, collected another version that family the history built on the record from the perspectives of women. The digenesis moves from the records that the historiography is in charge of male figures to a new version that comes from the voices of women. The text aims to play the role in shaping the nations towards an independent piece of thought. These women flagship of the cultural environment are associated in discourse, in same plane, to those which history has consecrated as representative of the American identity: therefore, refer to prominent figures such as Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, among others.

Harmonious Discourse

History and fiction in this novel braided Alvarez delicate and harmonious discourse that attempt to account for cultural-historical episodes truly respect trunk representative moments of our early history, those where the testimonial is join literary records emanating from writing and witnessed by these memories comprising two women, along with episodes of our history, important moments belonging to our cultural universe.

The extra textual referent referential, focusing now that recall the times Bicentennial of the Independence of Latin American nations, adds this lucid speech Dominican writer of an important corpus of novels that have dealt with witness and to recover from oblivion augural those times that shaped the early our independence and refined at the same time the final rupture of the ties that joined the destinies of Spain (University of Minnesota, 2009). The historical moment Alvarez's novel testifies motivates us to choose to approach the novel that group of writings that would charge to recover important segments of our historical past. The discourse of Dominican writer draws on parameters developed by narrative from ...