Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 1: Julia Alvarez and the Autobiographical Antojo -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: ¡Yo! on the Margins: Dividing the Family and the Ethnic Writer as Traitor -- Alvarez's Critique of the Dominican Family -- The Ethnic Writer as Traitor -- Conclusion: "They're Not Characters, They're My Family" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: "Super-Size Me": Ritual as Affluenza in Julia Alvarez's Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Rewriting Master Narratives: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Patriots and Citizens of the Planet: Friendship and Geopolitics in Julia Alvarez's Young Adult Fiction -- "No Flies Fly into a Closed Mouth": Friendship, Testimonio, and Freedom -- Adopting a Transnational Sense of Self: Living Youth Activism outside the Box -- Patriots and Citizens of the Planet: Transcending Borders in Return to Sender and the Tía Lola Novels -- Concluding Thoughts: Teaching and Learning from Julia Alvarez's Young Adult Fiction -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Isolation on Hybridity Road: Complexities of Identity Formation in Julia Alvarez's Something to Declare -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: "Between the Scylla and the Charybdis": Remapping Subjectivity in the Dialogic Waters of Julia Alvarez's "The Other Side/El Otro Lado" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: In the Name of Salomé: Julia Alvarez's Feminist Discourse on La Patria -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9: The Hidden Archivist -- Or, Julia Alvarez's Historical Fiction beyond the Borders.

In-Between and Beyond: Alvarez's Historical Narrator -- Other Archives: Collective Oral History and Narrative Identity -- Saving Salomé and Writing the Self -- Saving the Wor(l)d -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.