![]() ![]() ![]() Shaw maintains that the "emergence of strong female characters" is what made Allende's first work a "genuinely 'inaugural' novel" (59, 58). Linda Gould Levine in her Twayne book (2002) succinctly assesses the author's status: "Isabel Allende is the most acclaimed woman writer of Latin America" (ix). Similarly, in his recent book, Literature of Latin America (2004), Rafael Ocasio identifies Allende as "the woman writer from Latin America with the greatest international readership," noting also that "she has a significant influence on an increasingly popular, worldwide literature written by women" (168). ![]() In The Post-Boom in Spanish American Fiction (1998), Donald Shaw writes" "Without question the major literary event in Spanish America during the early eighties was the publication in 1982 of Isabel Allende's runaway success La Casa de los Espiritus" (53). Widely recognized as a major contributor to Latin American literature, Isabel Allende holds a preeminent place in its literary history. ![]()
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