Abstract
This is how Julia Alvarez, the successful Dominican-American writer of the past two decades, introduces herself on her personal website, describing her tormented first years. A childhood of displacement and confusion, the inherent traumas of dislocation, the steady and often troublesome negotiation of identities in the ambiguous regions of the hyphen: such are the constitutive elements that have shaped the profile of this transcultural author and the subjects of this chapter.
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Chevereşan, C. (2010). Becoming “Un-Dominican-York”: Julia Alvarez, Transculturalism and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. In: Berg, W., Éigeartaigh, A. (eds) Exploring Transculturalism. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92440-3_6
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