Everyone knows of Las Mariposas – “The Butterflies.” Now, three decades later, Julia Alvarez, also a daughter of the Dominican Republic and long haunted by these sisters, immerses us in a tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell their story in the only way it can truly be understood – through fiction. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. 15 (Novem): 52.In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez “In the Time of the Butterflies.” Nation 259, no. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1964. Quisqueya: A History of the Dominican Republic. “Remembering and Reconstructing the Mirabal Sisters in Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies.” The Bilingual Review/ La Revista Bilingûe$113, no. “In the Time of the Butterflies.” World Literature Today 69, no. “In the Time of the Butterflies.” Americas (English edition) 47, no. “In the Time of the Butterflies.” Progressive 59, no.
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“Sisters in Death.” New York Times Book Review. “Revolutions of the Heart.” Women’s Review of Books 12, no. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.īehar, Ruth. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Blending fact with fiction, In the Time of the Butterflies probes contradictions in the lives of young women living under both a dictatorial state and provincial patriarchal society. The story of the murdered Mirabal sisters-known by their nom de guerre, las mariposas (the butterflies)-and their surviving sister, Dedé, unfolds against a background of persecution and oppression in the Dominican Republic. On November 25, 1960, as they returned from visiting their jailed husbands, Patria, Minerva, María Teresa Mirabal, and their driver, Rufino de la Cruz, were ambushed, tortured, and killed by a government death squad. In this fictionalized biography, Alvarez explores the tragic odyssey of three women who revolted against the tyrannical government of the dictator, General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, and whose murder roused opposition to the regime. Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies is an intricately woven historical novel about the Mirabal sisters, who became symbols in the Dominican struggle for social justice after they were assassinated.
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