Novelist
Julia Alvarez will talk on “The Making of a Writer” on Wednesday, October 7, at
7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
Alvarez's award-winning novels How the Garcia
Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of Butterflies, and Yo!, as well
as her poetry, have helped to give a distinct voice to Latina women. A native of the
Dominican Republic, Alvarez highlights the struggles between ties to the homeland and
desires to establish a new American identity; she broaches the threshold between accent
and native speech, alienation and assimilation, history and politics.
Her appearance is sponsored by the Minerva Committee with
support from Circulo Estudiantil Latino Americano, the English department, History
department, and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies programs.