Critical Insights: Isabel Allende Table of Contents About This Volume John Rodden Career, Life, and Influence On Isabel Allende John Rodden Biography of Isabel Allende Amanda Hopkinson The Paris Review Perspective Michael Wood for The Paris Review Critical Contexts "Un puñado de críticos": Navigating the Critical Readings of Isabel Allende's Work Beth E. Jörgensen The House of the Spirits: A Twentieth-Century Family Chronicle Charles Rossman Maryse Condé and Isabel Allende: Family Saga Novels María Roof Voices from the Political Abyss: Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and the Reconstruction and Preservation of History and Memory in 1970s Chile and Beyond Carrie Sheffield Critical Readings Family Systems and National Subversion in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits Sara E. Cooper Magical Places in Isabel Allende's Eva Luna and Cuentos de Eva Luna Barbara Foley Buedel Mourning Becomes Paula: The Writing Process as Therapy for Isabel Allende Linda S. Maier The Metaphysics of Mother/Daughter Renewal in La casa de los espíritus and Paula Cherie Meacham Isabel Allende, Fortune's Daughter John Rodden La hija de la fortuna: Cross-Dressing, Travel, and Gendering the Self Nadia Avendaño Self-Portrait in Sepia? Isabel Allende's Technicolored Life John Rodden Isabel Allende in Context: The Erasure of Boundaries Linda Gould Levine Archetype, Not Ideology: Isabel Allende's Balance of Opposites Vincent Kling Z/Z: Isabel Allende and the Mark of Zorro Philip Swanson Unscrambling Allende's "Dos palabras": The Self, the Immigrant/Writer, and Social Justice Luz María Umpierre The Cultural Work of Magical Realism in Three Young Adult Novels Don Latham "I Am Inventing Myself All the Time": Isabel Allende in Her Interviews John Rodden Resources Chronology of Isabel Allende's Life Works by Isabel Allende Bibliography About the Editor About The Paris Review Contributors Acknowledgments Index .