Isabel Alvarez Borland

Biographic Data

ID5439078
NAMEIsabel Alvarez Borland
GIVEN NAMESIsabel Alvarez
FAMILY NAMEBorland
SIGNATUREBORLAND I A
AFFILIATIONSCollege of the Holy Cross
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX0

  • Identity, Memory, and Diaspora

    Jorge J E Gracia, Lynette M F Bosch et al.EDITORBOOKIdentity, Memory, and Diaspora2009

  • Identity, memory, and diaspora

    Jorge J E Gracia, Isabel Alvarez-Borland et al.EDITORBOOKIdentity, Memory, and Diaspora2008

  • By Heart/ De Memoria

    Isabel Alvarez Borland, María De Los Angeles TorresARTICLEHispania2004

    Preface 1. Introduction Maria de los Angeles Torres 2. El Bote Achy Obejas 3. Reflections Liz Balmaseda 4. Donde los Fantasmas Bailan Guaguanco: Where Ghosts Dance el Guaguanco Maria de los Angeles Torres 5. Not the Golden Age Nereida Garcia-Ferraz 6. From This Side of the Fishtank Teresa de Jesus Fernandez 7. Through Other Looking Glasses Josefina de Diego 8. La Salida: The Departure Mirta Ojito 9. The Recurring Dream Carmen Diaz 10. Only Fragme…

  • Cuban-American Literature of Exile

    Mary S Vásquez, Isabel Alvarez BorlandARTICLEHispania2003

  • Entre dos Américas

    Isabel Alvarez Borland, Guillermina WalasARTICLEHispania2003

    In Entre dos Americas, Guillermina Walas explores the importance of memory for Latina authors. These authors are displaced from their familiar roots in Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean, and find themselves immersed in their actual individual lives in the United States. These women construct or re-build a new Latina identity based on memory and the past, but also project to a future located in the Anglo-American context. The resulting iden…

  • Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Assays, Essays, and Other Arts

    Iraida H López, Ardis L Nelson et al.ARTICLEHispanic Review2002

    Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Assays, Essays, and Other Arts. Ed. Ardis L. Nelson. New York: Twayne, 1999. 242 pages. Cuban-American Literature of Exile: From Person to Persona. By Isabel Alvarez Borland. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1998. 198 pages. Cuban Writers on and off Island: Contemporary Narrative Fiction. By Pamela Maria Smorkaloff. New York: Twayne, 1999. 100 pages. Although these three books revolve around Cuban and Cuban-American lit…

  • Lesbian Voices from Latin America

    Open AccessIsabel Alvarez Borland, Elena Martinez et al.ARTICLEChasqui1999

  • Dance between Two Cultures

    Isabel Alvarez Borland, William LuisARTICLEHispania1998

  • The Task of the Historian in el general en su laberinto

    Isabel Alvarez BorlandARTICLEHispania1993

    I Elgeneralen su laberinto, Garcia Mirquez offers a critique of the historical process and examination of the m thodology of history as a discipline in sev ral interrelated dimensions. Central to a vision of the novel as hi oriographic meta iction are the author's discl sure of his own methodology in compiling the story of Boliv r and t re a i n p b tw en o l v r ions nd writ documents within the fiction itself

  • Interior Texts in El amor en los tiempos del colera

    Isabel Alvarez BorlandARTICLEHispanic Review1991

    KE provides a comment on the power of illusion by means of embedded texts which are a crucial part of the fictional world of the novel. El amor is also a text whose non-mimetic ending subverts its traditional design and in so doing undermines its own affiliation with the parameters of Realism as defined by Erich Auerbach in Mimesis-an interest in photographic representation, a penchant for detailed description, and a grounding of the action withi…