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| In fact, a correlation between several other Alvarez works can be comprehended just as clearly in "Bilingual Sestina": "[Homecoming, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, and In the Time of the Butterflies] provide Alvarez with the fictional framework to reconcile her personal dilemma of being una gringa [d]ominicana, a woman caught in the tangle of two cultures and two languages, a woman who writes in a language that is not her mother tongue" (Rosario-Sievert 125). La Gringa Loca--a filthy, swearing, spitting and completely insane American woman terrorizes the place. Merkle, meanwhile, is a year-old East coast gringa based in San Francisco whose online specialty is Mexican ranchera and norteno music. |
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