that incident would make me feel very angry and sad. maybe Allende caught
that disease called "tokenism"? goodnight.
On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Lara Edge wrote:
> >isn't it part of that genre called magical realism or something. Lot's of
> >South American/Latin writers write in this genre, like Isabelle Allende
> >and Borges and Garcia Marquez and such?
>
> Yep. Magical realism, to me, seems like fantasy set in our own world. One
> of my favorite genres. I was a huge Isabelle Allende fan until I found out
> how she treated one of my best friends -- a struggling photojournalist
> (Anita Baca) in South America. She and Allende attended a news conference
> and Allende took her seat and plunked all her photo equipment carelessly on
> the ground and told Anita to find another seat (Anita had arrived a couple
> of hours early to get a seat and only after getting up to get a drink of
> water did the late-arriving Allende take her seat). I don't know, but it
> seems to me that someone who claims to be a friend to "regular folk" and
> women's rights and who also been the victim of political changes ought to
> me a bit more congenial. Anita, who BTW turned me on to her, said Allende
> believed she had a right to her seat simply because of who she was.
> Anyway, as much as I like her stories/writing I won't be buying any more of
> her books. She definitely isn't the person who I thought she was.
>
> >
> >On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Karen A. Ketcham wrote:
> >
> >> Hi I'm Karen.
> >> has anyone read Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel? the
> >> author has acknowledged an interviewer's opinion of this work to be
> >> science fiction. any comments?
> >>
>
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