Portrait In Sepia

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063049659

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Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende Pdf

Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia is a stunning novel about memory and family secrets Set at the end of the nineteenth century, Portrait in Sepia is a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family. The protagonist, Aurora del Valle, suffers a brutal trauma that shapes her character and erases from her mind all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious grandmother, the regal and commanding Paulina del Valle, she grows up in a privileged environment, free of the limitations that circumscribe the lives of women at that time, but tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal by the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she decides to explore the mystery of her past.

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613621549

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Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende Pdf

Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune (a February 2000 Oprah Pick) and The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende has written a richly imagined historical novel featuring the colorful and intrepid del Valle family. In Retrato en Sepia (Portrait in Sepia) Allende has written a richly imagined saga of the turbulent history, lives, and loves of late 19th century Chile.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:967999451

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PORTRAIT IN SEPIA. by Anonim Pdf

Author : Isabel Allende,John Rodden
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0292702116

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Conversations with Isabel Allende by Isabel Allende,John Rodden Pdf

This revised edition has been updated to cover Allende's three newest books—City of the Beasts, Portrait in Sepia: A Novel, and Daughter of Fortune. It includes four new interviews in which Allende discusses completing her trilogy of novels that began with House of the Spirits, as well as her ongoing spiritual adventure and political interests.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786471270

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Isabel Allende by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

Isabel Allende--"la Famosa" to her fellow Chileans--is the world's most widely read Spanish language author. Her career coincides with the emergence of multiculturalism and global feminism, and her powerfully honest, revelatory works touch the pulse points of humankind. Her bravura study of the interwoven roles of women in family history opens the minds of outsiders to the sufferings of women and their children during years of social and political nightmare. This reference work provides an introduction to Allende's life as well as a guided overview of her body of work. Designed for the fan and scholar alike, this text features an alphabetized, fully-annotated listing of major terms in the Allende canon, including fictional characters, motifs, historical events and themes. A comprehensive index is included.

Author : Celia Correas de Zapata
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1611920434

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Isabel Allende: Life and Spirits by Celia Correas de Zapata Pdf

A series of interviews with the Chilean author.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0007661630

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Free Portrait In Sepia Poster by Anonim Pdf

Author : B. Craig
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137337580

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Rewriting American Identity in the Fiction and Memoirs of Isabel Allende by B. Craig Pdf

Moving away from territorially-bound narratives toward a more kinetic conceptualization of identity, this book represents the first analysis of the politics of American identity within the fiction and memoirs of Isabel Allende. Craig offers a radical transformation of societal frameworks through revised notions of place, temporality, and space.

Author : Karen C. Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313052675

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Isabel Allende by Karen C. Cox Pdf

Isabel Allende garnered immediate attention and international acclaim with the 1982 publication of House of Spirits. Allende drew favorable comparisons to male Latin American writers who were dominating a boom movement that mixed political and magical themes. Yet her engaging epic became a bestseller based on its artistic merit, regardless of gender issues, and her ensuing output of fiction and nonfiction continued to establish her esteemed place in the literary ranks. This Critical Companion introduces readers to Allende's writings with accessible literary analysis of her six novels, featuring discussions of plot, character development, thematic concerns and style, historical contexts, and alternative critical perspectives. A fascinating biographical chapter traces Allende's journey from wife, mother, and journalist in Chile to internationally acclaimed author. Her life story—as stimulating as her novels—offer students and readers a better understanding of the historical and political forces that informed her work. The Literary Heritage chapter provides will deepen readers' appreciation for Allende's contributions to, and place in, the Latin American literary tradition. A select bibliography includes reviews and resources that will be especially useful for student research projects.

Author : Joan Axelrod-Contrada,Carmen Bredeson
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781608703968

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Isabel Allende by Joan Axelrod-Contrada,Carmen Bredeson Pdf

A biography of writer Isabel Allende that describes her era, major works, and life.

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063049635

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Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaíso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquín Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquín takes off for San Francisco to seek his fortune, and Eliza, pregnant with his child, decides to follow him. As Eliza embarks on her perilous journey north in the hold of a ship and arrives in the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco, she must navigate a society dominated by greedy men. But Eliza soon catches on with the help of her natural spirit and a good friend, the Chinese doctor Tao Chi’en. What began as a search for love ends up as the conquest of personal freedom. A marvel of storytelling, Daughter of Fortune confirms once again Isabel Allende's extraordinary gift for fiction and her place as one of the world's leading writers.

Author : Susan Carvalho
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 185566142X

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Contemporary Spanish American Novels by Women by Susan Carvalho Pdf

A reading of contemporary women's fiction in Spanish America in which space, rather than time, is seen as the driver of the narrative. Space is critical to imaginative writing. As English novelist Elizabeth Bowen has observed: 'nothing can happen nowhere'. This book offers an interdisciplinary framework for reading novels, and in particular women's fiction in Spanish America, with a focus on geoplot, on space rather than time as the narrative engine. Following the work of Lefebvre and Friedman, the author examines recent works by Spanish America's most visible women novelists - Angeles Mastretta [Mexico], Isabel Allende [Chile], Rosario Ferré [Puerto Rico], Sara Sefchovich [Mexico] and Laura Restrepo [Colombia] -and the ways in which their female protagonists challenge the spatial barriers erected by capitalist hegemony. Margins, borders, liminal spaces, the chora-space, and the body are emphasized as potential sites of transgression. The analysis identifies spatial negotiation as a mechanism both for cementing and for undermining authority, thus exposing the strategies through which literature constructs and represents power. SUSAN CARVALHO is Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Kentucky, and Director of the Middlebury College Spanish School.

Author : Annemarie Pabel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000638912

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Women Writing Trauma in the Global South by Annemarie Pabel Pdf

Through exploring complex suffering in the writings of Aminatta Forna, Isabel Allende and Anuradha Roy, Women Writing Trauma in the Global South dismantles conceptual shortcomings and problematic imbalances at the core of existing theorizations around psychological trauma. The global constellation of women writers from Sierra Leone, Chile and India facilitates a productive analysis of how the texts navigate intertwined experiences of individual and systemic trauma. The discussion departs from a recent critical turn in literary and cultural trauma studies and transgresses many interrelated boundaries of geocultural contexts, language and genre. Discovering the role of literary forms in reparative articulation and empathic witnessing, this critical intervention develops new ideas for an inclusive conceptual expansion of trauma from the global peripheries and contributes to the ongoing debate on marginalized suffering.

Author : Paul Fuqua,Steven Biver
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781136099014

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FACES: Photography and the Art of Portraiture by Paul Fuqua,Steven Biver Pdf

There is so much detail to be captured in a face. Cicero (106-43 BC) said: "The face is a picture of the mind as the eyes are its interpreter." To capture a person's personality, there are many things to keep in mind, and the authors of FACES show us how to match up a personality with lighting, posing, and composition. Portraiture is truly an art, and this book dives deep into the details so that you end up with a gorgeous portrait that both you and your subject love. Not only is this book the most comprehensive title available on portraiture, but it contains stunning images. Each image is paired with a lighting diagram, a description of why the type of image was chosen, and then takes you through postproduction to put the finishing touches on. The authors also showcase a gallery of portraits by renowned photographers.

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063049642

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Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea tells the story of one unforgettable woman—a slave and concubine determined to take control of her own destiny—in this sweeping historical novel that moves from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century “Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers.”—Los Angeles Times The daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor, Zarité—known as Tété—was born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue. Growing up amid brutality and fear, Tété found solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the mysteries of voodoo. Her life changes when twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770 to run his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare. Overwhelmed by the challenges of his responsibilities and trapped in a painful marriage, Valmorain turns to his teenaged slave Tété, who becomes his most important confidant. The indelible bond they share will connect them across four tumultuous decades and ultimately define their lives.