In the 1980s there was a proliferation of poetry collections, short stories, and novels published by women of Latin American descent in the United States. ██ ███ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ █████ ██ ████ ██████ ████████ ███ ██████████████ ████ ████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ██ █████ ███████ ████████████████ ████████████ ██████ ██ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ███ █████ █████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ███████ ███████ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██████ ███████ ███ ███████ ████████ ███ ██████████████ █████████ ██ ██████ ██████████
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The author’s purpose isn’t to distinguish one kind of autiobiography from others. The author treats the autobiographies together as examples of the level of innovation. The purpose isn’t to draw distinctions between the three Latina autobiographies, but rather, between the three autobiographies and typical autobiographies. It’s also not clear that the author would classify the three Latina autobiographies as being different “types.”
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The author discusses Getting Home Alive as an example of how a Latina autobiographer used an innovative structure. This work “departs even further from the conventions typical of autobiography,” which helps illustrate the level of structural innovation.
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The author’s purpose isn’t show that multiple voices are common in Latina autobiographies. In fact we don’t know whether they’re common; the author never says they are.
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The author discusses Getting Home Alive as an example of how a Latina autobiographer used an innovative structure. Although the author does acknowledge that this structure can be confusing, the purpose of mentioning the work isn’t to illustrate readers’ difficulty in understanding; it’s to show the level of structural innovation.
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The author discusses Getting Home Alive as an example of how a Latina autobiographer used an innovative structure. This work “departs even further from the conventions typical of autobiography,” which helps illustrate the level of structural innovation.