In the Time of the Butterflies | Essays and Criticism
- Alvarez's Stated Objectives in In the Time of the Butterflies
In the following essay, Darren Felty explores Alvarez's stated objectives in In the Time of the Butterflies and the ways in which her characters fulfill these objectives.
- Review of In the Time of Butterflies
In the following essay, Elizabeth Martínez describes Alvarez's book as a "fictionalized biography that moves its characters forward in the shadow of impending doom" as they "become involved in the underground movement against dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo."
- Sisters in Death
In the following essay, Roberto González Echevarría criticizes Alvarez's book for monumentalizing the Mirabals' story, for not making their characters complex enough, and for not connecting the period of the Mirabals to broader Latin American history.
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