The Power of Love: Rewriting the Romance in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna

Despite its ongoing popularity with women readers, romantic fiction has traditionally been regarded as an instrument of women's oppression, largely due to its reinforcement and even glorification of sexual stereotypes and bourgeois values. Latin American writer Isabel Allende's novels The...

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Main Author: Frances Jane P. Abao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of the Philippines 2000-12-01
Series:Humanities Diliman
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Online Access:http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/17