Talk:Julia Alvarez

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{{editprotected}} Hello, I would like to add a link in the article to this recent interview with Julia Alvarez. http://litminds.org/blog/2007/08/julia_alvarez_talks_about_stor.html Thanks - Praveen Madan

How would you want to do this? If the interview contains any relevant information to the article, you may cite something from the interview and use that link as a source, in which case please post it here. However, we're not putting random links to interviews in articles when they're not relevant. Melsaran 19:03, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

Plan

Our plan (SPAN 322A) for this semester is:

1. this article has a couple of resources, but we plan on expanding it as we prepare our bibliography for September 26th
2. Look at jbmurray's models of featured/good articles and write down what subtopics they include that we could also use in our article
3. I already have some books, but now need to read them to find relevant information.
4. We'll then work on expanding subtopics, and hopefully assign a couple to each of our group members to work on
5. We plan on editing at least twice a week
6. add many pictures of alvarez througout her life
7. include interviews with the author
8. talk about some of the novels she has written and her influence
9. hopefully reach good article/featured article status by the end of the semester

--Julie17 (talk) 23:51, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

Looks like a good plan. You can of course add to it over time. And cross things off when you've done them, including adding a big green checkmark {{done}}  Done. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 18:19, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Ideas for Subheadings--Julie17 (talk) 21:45, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

1. Career
2. Books authored
3. Critiques
4. Influences in the media
5. Themes
6. Involvements outside of literature

Bibliography

• Alarcon, Norma, Ana Castillo, and Cherrie Moraga. The Sexuality of Latinas. MI: Third Woman P, 1993.

• Alvarez, Julia. "Julia Alvarez Official Site." Julia Alvarez Official Site. <http://http://www.juliaalvarez.com/>.

• Alvarez, Julia (1998), Something to Declare: Essays, Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, ISBN 978-1565121935. In Koerner's at PS3551.L845 Z47 1998.

• Alvarez, Julia, and Bill Eichner. "Cafe Alta Gracia: A Specialty Coffee." Cafe Alta Gracia: A Specialty Coffee. <http://www.cafealtagracia.com/>.

• Birnbaum, Robert. "Interview. Julia Alvarez". Identity Theory Interviews Julia Alvarez. <http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum171.php> —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sauceyboy (talk • contribs) 03:54, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

• Browdy de Hernandez, Jennifer, ed. Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: South End P, 2004.

• Dalleo, Raphael; Machado Sáez, Elena (2007), The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1403977960. See the chapter "Writing in a Minor Key: Postcolonial and Post-Civil Rights Histories in the Novels of Julia Álvarez." 133–158. In Koerner's at PS153.H56 D35 2007.

• Figueroa, RA. "Ultramarine phantasms: The Dominicanity in Julia Alvarez and Junot Diaz." Revista Iberoamericana Summer 2005: 731-44.

• Freeman, Phyllis R.; Zlotnik Schmidt, Jan (2000), Wise Women: Reflections of Teachers at Mid-Life, New York: Routledge, ISBN 978-0415923033.

  How relevant is this? --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 05:06, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

• Henao, Eda B. (2004), The Colonial Subject's Search for Nation, Culture, and Identity in the Works of Julia Alvarez, Rosario Ferré, and Ana Lydia Vega, Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen, ISBN 978-0889463868. Not in Koerner's. Will have to use Inter-Library Loan.

• Johnson, Kelli Lyon (2005), Julia Alvarez: Writing a New Place on the Map, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN 978-0826336514. In Koerner's at PS3551.L845 Z74 2005.

• Kafka, Phillipa. Saddling la Gringa Vol. 183 : Gatekeeping in Literature by Contemporary Latina Writers. New York: Greenwood P, 2000.

• Martinez, Elizabeth C. "Julia Alvarez." Americas 59 (2007): 6-13.

• Meacham, C. "Crossing yet another border: The critique of compulsory heterosexuality in the novels of Julia Alvarez." Hispnofila 138 (2003): 135-52.

• Mujčinović, Fatima (2004), Postmodern Cross-Culturalism and Politicization in U.S. Latina Literature: From Ana Castillo to Julia Alvarez, New York: Peter Lang, ISBN 978-0820469294. Not in Koerner's. Will have to use Inter-Library Loan.

• Rubenstein, Roberta. Home Matters : Longing and Belonging, Nostalgia and Mourning in Women's Fiction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001.

• Ruiz, Vicki L. Latinas in the United States : A Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. Virginia S. Korrol. New York: Indiana UP, 2006.

• Sievert, Rosario H. "Conversation with Julia Alvarez." Editorial. Review- Latin American Lterature and Arts Spring 1997: 31-37.

• Sirias, Silvio (2001), Julia Alvarez: A Critical Companion, Westport, CT: Greenwood, ISBN 978-0313309939. In Koerner's at PS3551.L845 Z87 2001.

• Vazquez, David. "I Can't be me without my people: Julia Alvarez and the Postmodern Personal Narrative." Latino Studes 383rd ser. 1 (2003).

• Vazquez, David J. "Postmodern Cross-culturalism and Politicization in U.S. Latina Literature: From Ana Castillo to Julia Alvarez." Latino Studes 186th ser. 4 (2006).

• Wheatwind, Marie-Elise. "Quienceanera Barbie." Women's Review of Books 25 (2008): 25-26.

--Julie17 (talk) 17:41, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm going to be tidying up these references and indicating where more information is needed; you guys shouldn't worry about the formatting, but you do need to ensure that the references are complete. --jbmurray (talk • contribs)