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The richness and depth of Alvarez's work are testified to by the number of critical perspectives through which it can be analyzed and discussed. In both her poetry and fiction, Alvarez writes from a strongly female and often feminist perspective, one that clearly lends itself to approach through the perspective of GENDER studies. Her focus upon the life, both personal and public, and the culture of the Dominican Republic would call for the application of both HISTORICAL and SOCIOLOGICAL approaches. And !Yo! in particular, with its emphasis on the distorting-mirror relationship between life and art, might profitably be studied in both READER-RESPONSE and DECONSTRUCTIONIST modes.
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