Qwert and the Wedding Gown.(Brief Article) : An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction [HTML]

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This digital document is an article from The Review of Contemporary Fiction, published by Review of Contemporary Fiction on March 22, 1993. The length of the article is 440 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: Qwert and the Wedding Gown.(Brief Article)
Author: Ilan Stavans
Publication: The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 1993
Publisher: Review of Contemporary Fiction
Volume: v13 Issue: n1 Page: p264(2)Article Type: Book Review, Brief ArticleDistributed by Thompson Gale

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With a Kafkaesque style at once enlightening and nightmarish, its two protagonists - a first-person narrator and his wife Amanda - try, and eventually succeed, to leave their home country, an anonymous island in the Caribbean ruled by a cruel dictator. Once they are out, the plot moves to the United States, where they look for work while dreaming of assimilating into the new society, and from there to Hawaii. The male character, an anti-hero in the Sartrean tradition, is a writer anxious to find his own literary voice and identity. As the storyline progresses, he loses himself in a sea of angst, undergoes an alienatory stage, is abandoned by Amanda, and, as in a bildungsroman, returns to his Cuban...


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