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"La Mujer Del Juez" "The Judge's Wife": Isabel Allende Chile 1942

This document provides biographical information about Chilean author Isabel Allende. It discusses that she was born in Peru but grew up in Chile. After her cousin, Chilean President Salvador Allende, was assassinated in 1973, she fled to Venezuela. She published her first novel, The House of the Spirits, in 1982 which brought her great acclaim. Allende often features strong female protagonists in her works and explores themes of women's lives and empowerment. She now lives in California and founded a foundation in honor of her daughter who passed away from an illness.

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"La Mujer Del Juez" "The Judge's Wife": Isabel Allende Chile 1942

This document provides biographical information about Chilean author Isabel Allende. It discusses that she was born in Peru but grew up in Chile. After her cousin, Chilean President Salvador Allende, was assassinated in 1973, she fled to Venezuela. She published her first novel, The House of the Spirits, in 1982 which brought her great acclaim. Allende often features strong female protagonists in her works and explores themes of women's lives and empowerment. She now lives in California and founded a foundation in honor of her daughter who passed away from an illness.

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  • Introduction to Isabel Allende: An introduction of Isabel Allende, highlighting her significant contributions to literature and her background, including familial influences and notable works.
  • La Mujer del Juez Overview: Discusses 'La Mujer del Juez,' a story part of 'Los cuentos de Eva Luna,' including its themes and cultural significance.
  • Characteristics of Allende's Works: Explores common themes and character tropes in Allende's writing, focusing on the portrayal of strong women and the Panamerican aspect of her stories.
  • Character Analysis: Analyzes the main characters and their motivations within 'La Mujer del Juez,' discussing the psychological depth and impact of character backgrounds.
  • Elena Garro: The Final Story: Introduces Elena Garro and her connection to 'La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas,' discussing her life, literary career, and impact on Mexican literature.
  • The Tlaxcalteca Context: Provides historical context about the Tlaxcalteca people, their relationship with the Aztecs, and their role in the Spanish conquest, enhancing the understanding of Garro's work.

“La mujer del juez”

“The Judge’s Wife”


Isabel Allende
Chile
1942
Isabel Allende is one of Latin America's foremost female writers.
Through translation, her work has received acclaim in the United States
as well. Allende was born in Lima, Peru in 1942, but returned to Chile
with her father, a diplomat, at the age of three. Two years after her
cousin, Chilean President Salvador Allende, was assassinated in 1973,
she fled with her husband and children to Venezuela. She published her
first novel, La casa de los espiritus (The House of the Spirits) in 1982,
followed by De amor y de sombra (Of Love and Shadows) in 1984, Eva
Luna in 1989, El plan infinitivo (The Infinite Plan) in 1991, as well as a
collection of short stories, Cuentos de Eva Luna (The Stories of Eva
Luna) in 1990.
Allende's novels are sometimes based upon
her own personal experiences and often pay
homage to the lives of women, while weaving
together elements of myth and realism. She
has lectured and toured many American
colleges to teach literature. Allende adopted
American citizenship in 2003 and has lived in
California with her husband since 1989.
Allende started the Isabel Allende Foundation
on December 9, 1996 to pay homage to her
daughter, Paula Frías Allende who
experienced a coma after complications of the
disease porphyria placed her on a hospital
bed. Paula was only 28 years old when she
died in [Link] foundation is "dedicated to
supporting programs that promote and
preserve the fundamental rights of women
and children to be empowered and
protected.”
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“La mujer del juez” is one of the
stories from the book Los cuentos
del/ The Stories of Eva Luna
The stories were first told in
the novel Eva Luna, a
picaresque tale of a young
orphan who eventually rises
to an influential position
within society. Along the way
she encounters a vast array of
people from all walks of life.
Her storytelling is akin to
Scheherazade-she tells these
stories when her life is out of
Due to the success of Eva Luna, control and she needs to
Allende fleshed out the stories survive.
and published them separately
[insert another Harry Potter
reference here....]
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The eponymous telenovela appears


to have very little to do with the
original.
Allende’s protagonists tend to be strong women, although their
strengths may be subtle. They often combine or encompass the
two traditional forms of Latin American femininity:
marianismo malinchismo

Like García Márquez, her stories have a Panamerican aspect


to them, Chile + elsewhere combined. Unlike Rulfo, whose
stories are unquestionably Mexican.
What does the first line establish?
narrator

characters
names

how biography shapes character—Why NV is


like he is

the judge’s plan


after effects of the plan:

Juana la Triste

townspeople

judge

Vidal and gang

judge’s family How does Casilda save her family?

How does the story end for the 2


characters and why?
Psychological analysis of the 4 characters

Nicolás Vidal
Juana la Triste

Judge Hidalgo
Casilda
Our last story of the semester

Elena Garro: “La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas”


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“It’s the Tlaxcatecan’s Fault”


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Mexico
1920-1998
A little about Elena Garro

She wrote novels, short She was the first wife of writer
stories and plays, that Octavio Paz, Nobel Prize winner
explored the in 1990.
connections between
reality and illusion in
Mexico. Her marriage to Paz in 1937 brought her into a circle of
intellectuals where her own radical ideas flourished and
eventually clashed with those of her contemporaries.
Soon after marrying, she and Paz moved from Mexico City to
Spain to write about the Spanish Civil War. They lived in Paris
after World War II and became part of the literary group that
included the Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges and the
Surrealist André Breton. Later they lived in Japan before
returning to Mexico.
Their marriage dissolved in the early 1960's and they never
spoke to each other again.
And a bit more about the Tlaxcalteca

The Tlaxcalan (Tlascalan, Tlaxcaltecan, Tlaxcalteco) Indians of central Mexico,


who spoke a Uto-Aztecan language, aided Cortez in his conquest of the Aztec
empire and received certain privileges in return. This relationship of mutual aid
and trust continued into later times, and Tlaxcalans often assisted the Spaniards
on the frontier in exploration, warfare, and colonization.

The Tlaxcalteca were enemies of the Aztec


[Mexica], and were often their sacrificial
victims in the guerra florida.

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