¡Yo! (novel)

E336363

¡Yo! is a novel by Julia Alvarez that explores the life and identity of a Dominican-American writer through the shifting perspectives of the people around her.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
¡Yo! (novel) canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (33)

Predicate Object
instanceOf novel
author Julia Alvarez
characterOccupation writer
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresCharacter acquaintances of Yolanda García
friends of Yolanda García
members of Yolanda García's family
genre Bildungsroman
fiction
immigrant literature
literary fiction
hasSubject Dominican diaspora
Latina identity in the United States
art and ethics
storytelling and perspective
language English
literaryPeriod contemporary literature
mainCharacter Yolanda García
narrativePerspective multiple first-person narrators
narrativeStructure shifting perspectives
originalPublicationYear 1997
partOfSeries García family cycle
protagonistNationality Dominican diaspora
surface form: Dominican-American
relatedWork How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
setting Dominican Republic
United States of America
surface form: United States
theme biculturalism
family relationships
identity
immigration
memory
self-reinvention
the writing life

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Julia Alvarez notableWork ¡Yo! (novel)