Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez

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Index 239 adolescence, 26–27, 48–49, 67–68, 75, 77, 80, 109–112, 117, 120, 124, 126, 216, 219 Alabama HB 56, 53 affluenza, 10, 65, 68–69, 70–74, 76–78, 80 Alta Gracia, 7, 17 Alvarez, Julia: Works A Cafecito Story, 4, 64 “A White Woman of Color,” 19, 185 “Ars Politica,” 21 Before We Were Free, 2, 11, 39, 103, 111–115, 121, 123 The Best Gift of All: The Legend of La Vieja Belen, 40 “By Accident,” 23 “Chasing the Butterflies,” 35–36, 102, 105 “Did I Redeem Myself?,” 24 “Doña Aída, with Your Permission,” 12, 52, 59, 133, 142, 143, 145, 147, 148, 150, 151 “El Doctor,” 138 Entrevista, 143 “Family Matters,” 26, 31 “Family Tree,” 24 Finding Miracles, 2, 11, 39, 111, 115–118 “A Genetics of Justice,” 34 A Gift of Gracias: The Legend of Altagracia, 40, 128 “Grounds for Fiction,” 31 How the García Girls Lost their Accents, 3, 4, 6, 8, 19, 21–31, 39, 43, 45, 46, 50, 53–59, 64, 163, 189, 214 In the Name of Salomé, 3, 13, 19, 40, 59, 64, 189–209, 214, 221–232 In the Time of the Butterflies, ix, 2, 3, 6, 11, 19, 32, 33, 35, 39, 43, 58, 59, 64, 85–106, 163, 164, 189, 191, 214, 216–221, 222, 224–230, 231, 232 “La Gringuita,” 27, 132 “My English,” 7 “Museo del Hombre,” 24 “The Other Side/El Otro Lado,” 3, 4, 13, 159–186 “Passing On,” 1 “Picky Eater,” 137 Once Upon a Quinceañera, 4, 10, 63–81 Return to Sender, 2, 39, 111, 118–122, 124, 125 Saving the World, 3, 36, 37, 38, 60, 214, 224, 225–230, 232 The Secret Footprints, 40, 128 “So Much Depends,” 12, 133, 138, 139, 143, 144–147, 150 240 Index Alvarez, Julia: Works (continued) Something to Declare, 12, 19, 52, 64, 131–154 Tía Lola series, 1–2, 11, 39, 118, 121–125, 126, 128 “We Need to Understand,” 127 “A White Woman of Color,” 19, 185 The Woman I Kept to Myself, 3, 4, 23, 25¡Yo!, 3, 4, 8, 10, 19, 21, 22, 27–32, 39, 43–60, 64, 163, 167, 231 America(n)(s): America, 12, 15, 16, 18, 67, 71, 146, 231; American, 6, 8, 9–17, 19, 21, 24, 26, 27, 33, 36–38, 43–46, 51–54, 56, 58, 64, 66, 71–73, 75, 76, 80, 104, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 119, 123, 138– 147, 150, 152, 154, 172, 174, 176, 180, 186, 200, 222, 231, 232; Americans, 2, 17, 64–66, 68, 80, 138, 139; Americas, 5, 6, 16, 51, 134, 136, 139, 15, 193, 201, 203 American Dream/American Exceptionalism, 45, 52 antojo, 9, 10, 18, 21–39 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 57, 161, 167– 170, 184 Archive: materials, 14, 58, 87–88, 103; national, 86, 104; creation of, 87, 90, 94–95, 100, 103, 105–106, 192, 213–232 Arizona SB 1070, 53 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 87, 133, 164, 176, 185, 186 Barthes, Roland, 184–186 Benstock, Shari, 196, 206 Berlant, Lauren, 45, 48 Bhabha, Homi, 13, 133–135, 159, 161, 163, 169, 184 Big Read, 6, 43 bilingual(ism), 16, 26, 27, 33, 123, 124, 163, 168, 175 Boco, 3, 159, 161, 171–183, 186 Butterflies, The, 33, 164, 216, 231 campesinos, 172–176 Cantú, Norma, 58, 68, 74 capitalism, 64, 180 Caribbean, 6, 8, 9, 14, 16, 17, 44, 45, 52, 59, 64, 69, 91, 103–106, 148, 150–153, 189, 208, 214, 229 Cartegena Portalatín, Aída, 52, 59, 147, 148, 149 Carvajal, Francisco Henriquez y (Pancho), 190, 198, 200–203, 209 Castro, Fidel, 33 Cheever, John, 24, 25 class, 6, 14, 18, 33, 45, 47–57, 71–78, 100, 110–116, 120–125, 132–138, 141–146, 149–153, 159–161, 185–186 Coatlicue, 168, 169, 184 Cofer, Judith Ortiz, 58, 145 Columbus, Christopher, 15–16, 193, 201 consumption, 10, 17, 63, 68, 70–81, 93–95, 99, 142, 194, 202 Conquistadores, 15, 19, 25, 148 coyote, 2, 118, 121 Cruz, Mari, 118–121, 126–127 Cuba, 96, 137, 153, 197, 201, 202, 206–208, 221, 222, 224, 225 dialogics, 11, 13, 134, 159–186 241 Index diary, 2, 11, 39, 85–106, 113–115, 121, 164, 192, 213, 219, 223–227, 232 diaspora/ization: diaspora, 5, 9, 12, 33, 131–144, 147, 148, 150–153; diasporization, 131...