Abstract
In her article "Latino Identity in Allende's Historical Novels" Olga Ries analyzes the concept of individual and group identity found in five historical novels by Isabel Allende. Ries argues that while Allende's protagonists come from different backgrounds and different epochs, they share a process of psychological transformation and that affects their identity formation. The result is the formation of a transnational "Hispanic" identity, group as well as individual. In Ries's reading of Allende's texts, transnational Hispanic identity is based simultaneously on the Mexican/Hispanic concept of mestizaje and on the US-American concepts of the "melting pot" and the "American Dream."
Recommended Citation
Ries, Olga.
"Latino Identity in Allende's Historical Novels."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
13.4
(2011):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.1876>
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