Haunted by her past, Julia Alvarez has portrayed her immigrant experience as both painful and ambiguous. Her love of language and need to understand it has molded her life as an English professor and acclaimed author (Contemporary 1). However, a chronological study of several of her works exposes a disturbing path in her writing. Homecoming, Alvarez's first publication, is a collection of poems that barely even hint that she is in fact Hispanic. The publication has only one poem that hints of color and only one Spanish word. ...

• Word Count: 2799
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School