Through her fictional and non-fictional narratives, the Caribbean-American Julia Alvarez addresses women’s condition within a hegemonic social context, which happens to be heavily plagued by the maneuver among patriarchism, socioeconomic and ethnic-racial issues. Thus, this work draws on the role of Julia Alvarez’s writing and life experiences, once several transformations in her life are brought about due to the displacements the writer undergoes, such as cultural, linguistic, and identification ones. For this purpose, this study examines how Alvarez deals with experiencing displacement in order to comprehend the way her identity is configured after being subjected to geographical displacements that consequently foster Alvarez’s knowledge and recognition of herself as a modern world woman.
