false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166463877m/11210.jpg 11210 12 It's 1960, and 65-year-old Camila Ureña decides to join the New World. Castro's new world, that is, which she has been following on the news with a heated excitement she hasn't felt for years. Forced into early retirement from her 20-year post as a Spanish teacher among the perky white girls of Vassar College, Camila faces a choice: whether to move to Florida and live down the block from her best friend or to fly over Florida and into Havana where her brothers live--and thereby land in a place of upheaval and hungry ghosts. The hungriest ghost of all is Camila's mother, Salomé Ureña, whose poems became inspirational anthems for a short-lived revolution in the late-19th-century Dominican Republic.<p> Based in fact, <I>In the Name of Salomé</I> alternates between Camila's story and her mother's. Camila's chapters are written in the third person, Salomé's in the first. By calling Camila "she," Alvarez alienates her within the text--as if in her attic at Vassar she is floating outside herself in an America that does not belong to her. In contrast, Salomé's chapters vibrate with life and tears and melodrama. Through the alternating voices, which Alvarez handles masterfully, the reader comes to grasp Camila's longing for the color and music of her mother's lost world--how the meek daughter wishes "she" could become the "I" of her mother's revolutionary and passionate life as a poet, which began under a pseudonym, Herminia, in a local political paper: <blockquote> Each time there was a new poem by Herminia in the paper, Mamá would close the front shutters of the house and read it in a whisper to the rest of us. She was delighted with the brave Herminia. I felt guilty keeping this secret from her, but I knew if I told her, all her joy would turn to worry. </blockquote> Yet for Salomé, her pseudonym allows her to become the voice of a country, "and with every link she cracked open for la patria, she was also setting me free." <I>--Emily White</I> 203939 2000 In the Name of Salome total:900|5:207|4:352|3:281|2:51|1:9| 900 3397 1185 83 11210 0452282438 9780452282438 883 81 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166463877m/11210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11210.In_the_Name_of_Salome 3 0 false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 07:36:40 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 07:47:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 11210 0452282438 9780452282438 883 81 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166463877m/11210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11210.In_the_Name_of_Salome 0 0 false Sun Nov 15 03:43:28 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 05:37:56 -0800 2009 Hard Love, Cherríe Moraga, Adrienne Rich, and Dorothy Allison. it's been quite some time though since i've read a book with a lesbian in it. if i don't remedy ...more...]]> 11210 0452282438 9780452282438 883 81 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166463877m/11210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11210.In_the_Name_of_Salome 4 0 false Thu Feb 26 11:55:08 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 20:42:57 -0800 2009 In the name of Salome is a book not only Latinas but all women could relate to. This book is the story of a mother's life and her daughters. The mothers story is told chronologically while the daughters story is told backwards. This story not only gives you the Dominican Republic but talks about a c...more...]]> 11210 0452282438 9780452282438 883 81 3.77 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166463877m/11210.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11210.In_the_Name_of_Salome 3 0 false Fri Jan 16 16:40:18 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 09 10:23:51 -0700 2009
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