{"product_id":"isabel-allendes-house-of-the-karen-wooley-martin-9781855662001","title":"Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits Trilogy: Narrative Geographies","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe source of the narrative energy that creates such absorbing stories.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAllende's very popular novels have attracted both critical approval and opprobrium, often at the expense of genuine analysis. This sophisticated study explores the narrative architecture of Allende's \u003ci\u003eHouse of the Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e [1982], \u003ci\u003eDaughter of Fortune\u003c\/i\u003e [1999], and \u003ci\u003ePortrait in Sepia\u003c\/i\u003e [2000] as a trilogy, proposing that the places created in these novels subvert the patriarchal norms that have governed politics, sexuality, and ethnicity. \u003cbr\u003eRooted in the Foucauldian premise that the history of space is essentially the history of power, and supported by Susan Stanford Friedman's cultural geographies of encounter as well as Gloria Anzaldúa's study of borderlands, this study shows that, by rejecting traditional spatial hierarchies, Allende's trilogy systematically deterritorializes the elite while shifting the previously marginalized to the physical and thematic centers of her works. This movement provides the narrative energy which draws the reader into Allende's universe, and sustains the 'good story' for which she has been universally acclaimed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e KAREN WOOLEY MARTIN is Associate Professor of Spanish at Union University, Jackson, Tennessee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Wooley Martin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1855662000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781855662001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tamesis Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.30h x 9.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Karen Wooley Martin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47136523157759,"sku":"9781855662001","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5cce9081-57d1-4070-aa47-83e4c0749098.jpg?v=1755023605","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/isabel-allendes-house-of-the-karen-wooley-martin-9781855662001","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}