Something to declare - Alvarez, Julia (New York Plume, 1999)
Something to declare to my readers -- Part one: Customs -- Grandfather's blessing -- Our papers -- My English -- My second opera -- I want to be Miss America -- El Doctor -- La Gringuita -- Picky eater -- Briefly, a gardener -- Imagining motherhood -- A Genetics of justice -- Family matters -- Part two: Declarations -- First muse -- Of maids and other muses -- So much depends -- Dona Aida, with your permission -- Have typewriter, will travel -- A Vermont writer from the Dominican Republic -- Chasing the butterflies -- Goodbye, Ms. Chips -- In the name of the novel -- Ten of my writing commandments -- Grounds for fiction -- Writing matters.
"A Plume book."
Originally published: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998.
Fi-8695g donated by Dr. Ma. Teresa Sicat, Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Letters, UP Diliman.
Keywords: Alvarez, Julia -- Authorship; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Dominican Americans -- Intellectual life; Dominican Americans in literature; Dominican Republic -- In literature