TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alvarez,Julia
TI  - Something to declare
SN  - 1565121937
AV  - PS3551.L845 
U1  - 814.54 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin
KW  - Alvarez, Julia
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Dominican Americans in literature
KW  - Dominican Americans
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - USA
KW  - Dominican Republic
KW  - In literature
N2  - In her first book of nonfiction, Julia Alvarez offers two dozen personal essays about the two major (and interlocking) issues of her life - growing up with one foot in each of two cultures, and writing; In 1960, when Alvarez was ten years old, her father's participation in a failed coup attempt against Rafael Trujillo, the repressive dictator of the Dominican Republic, resulted in the family's self-imposed exile to New York City, where Dr. Alvarez set up a medical practice in the Bronx while his wife and four daughters set about the serious business of assimilation. That uprooting formed the thematic basis for two of Julia Alvarez's novels; Her father's revolutionary ties inspired the third, the story of one of Trujillo's most infamous atrocities. Something to Declare is about the influences those experiences have had on her work, and about the practical lessons she's learned on her way to becoming the internationally acclaimed writer she now is
ER  -