February 13, 2018, Filed Under: Research + TeachingTransnational sisterhood and solidarity in the Julia Alvarez archive Image: Notecard card from Edgwidge Danticat to JuliaAlvarez; the image is titled Colored Girl. In 1999, five years after Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies was published, the United Nations General Assembly cited the novel as an important cultural text that helped to pass the resolution to designate… read more