%0 Journal Article
%T Regular Revolutions: Feminist Travels in Julia Alvarez's <em>How the Garc¨ªa Girls Lost Their Accents</em> and <em>In the Time of the Butterflies</em>
%A Crystal Parikh
%J Journal of Transnational American Studies
%D 2011
%I 
%X This essay examines two novels by Dominican American author Julia Alvarez, How the Garc¨ªa Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. By undertaking a transnational feminist reading practice, the author explicates the novels¡¯ critique of the political constructions of the Latin American Third World as ¡°deprived¡± and ¡°depraved.¡± Alvarez¡¯s work traces how these representations have been constitutive of a North American liberal feminist imaginary, limiting its conception of the forms of feminist agency available to women in the Americas as well as the liberal social rebellion and ¡°development¡± of the woman of color in the United States. Ultimately, the two novels uncover the imperial history between the United States and the Dominican Republic that (neo)liberal linkages otherwise obscure.
%K Julia Alvarez
%K Latina fiction
%K transnational feminism
%K U.S. imperialism
%K Dominican Republic
%U https://submit.escholarship.org/ojs/index.php/acgcc_jtas/article/view/7015