In the novel, we find women, with bodies, with desires, with doubts. The revolutionary figure, when mythologized, is not human, but political desire made manifest. In complicating the Mirabal sisters, in letting them tell their stories, imagined or real, one can argue that Alvarez rescues them from their own myth.
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(I gave these remarks at the National Hispanic Institute’s annual conference Celebración on November 3rd, 2018) I completely reject the Latino essentialism and individualistic exceptionalism…
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