![]() Elaborating on certain critical concepts from post-colonialism, particularly Homi Bhabha's theory of hybridity and the transculturation proposed by Fernando Ortiz and Angel Rama, the present article explores the process by which Allende creeps through the mist of clashing voices and opposing means of representation to form her ideal model both in character and in writing mode: a transcultural phenomena that ends at a negating negotiability in its especial form of characterization. ![]() Within the postcolonial context, however, her fiction can be interpreted from quiet different perspectives. Being mostly analyzed within the framework of Feminism, gender-related issues, or socio-political approaches, Isabel Allende, therefore, has been regarded by literary critics as a politically exiled woman writer who seeks to portray a range of female characters who are caught inside a patriarchal socio-cultural context, seek to free themselves, and search for self-recognition. His father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner, his mother a Shoshone warrior. Born in Southern California in the late eighteenth century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. She is a cousin of Salvador Allende, Chile's first socialist president who was assassinated during the 1973 military coup d’état. El Zorro es una aventura de espadachines que revela la historia del legendario hombre enmascarado. A swashbuckling adventure story, Zorro reveals the history behind the legendary masked man. ![]() ![]() Zorro, a novel of quasi-romance structure, has been written by Chilean writer Isabel Allende in 2005. ![]()
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