Puerto Rican and Dominican Self-Portraits and their Frames: The âAutobiographicalâ Fiction of Esmeralda Santiago, Junot DÃ­az, and Julia Ãlvarez

Aitor Ibarrola-ArmendÃ¡riz

Puerto Rican and Dominican Self-Portraits and their Frames: The âAutobiographicalâ Fiction of Esmeralda Santiago, Junot DÃaz, and Julia Ãlvarez

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Aitor Ibarrola-ArmendÃ¡riz

Aitor Ibarrola-ArmendÃ¡riz Universidad de Deusto

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This essay deals with some of the dilemmas faced by ethnic autobiographers when they set out to represent their life stories in writing. While nobody would deny the significant benefits that may be derived from this self-conscious exercise, bicultural authors are sometimes unaware of the kind of boundariesâor framesâthat the mainstream culture demarcates for their self-portrayals. This analysis of Esmeralda Santiagoâs When I Was Puerto Rican (1993), Junot DÃazâs Drown (1996), and Julia Ãlvarezâs Â¡Yo! (1997), all of which could be characterized as fictional âautobiographies,â reveals how these three writers are subject to some of the principles and rules that have governed the genre since its very inception in North America. Due to the type of subjectivities and selfhoods they aspire to develop and represent in their works, and to the expectations that their readers hold about them, they are seen to deploy certain strategies and patterns which could hardly be deemed new or original in self-writing. While it would be inaccurate and unfair not to admit that they have expanded the boundaries of the autobiographical genre, this essay also shows that these Latino/a writers are heavily dependent on a number of âutopian blueprints,â divided forms of subjectivity, and traditional patterns of cultural critique which were already prominent in the works of âforefathersâ of the genre in the New World.

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Selves in Dialogue

A Transethnic Approach to American Life Writing

Reihe:Â Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature, Band: 5

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Print-Publikationsdatum:: 01 Jan 2011

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Puerto Rican and Dominican Self-Portraits and their Frames: The âAutobiographicalâ Fiction of Esmeralda Santiago, Junot DÃaz, and Julia Ãlvarez