@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt9qdq0c.10, ISBN = {9781855662001}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdq0c.10}, abstract = {The metaphoric or symbolic space of text – both written and photographed – is a primary site within the trilogy for subversion of class-and gender-based borders. This chapter explores the role of women’s discourse, which has traditionally been marginalized or dismissed as frivolous by patriarchal power structures, as a means of carving out space and authority for the female voice. Within the trilogy, writing and photography function as passports, either by allowing the female protagonist herself to achieve physical mobility or by allowing her message to travel across political and cultural borders. In many ways, textual spaces synthesize and resolve the border}, bookauthor = {KAREN WOOLEY MARTIN}, booktitle = {Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits Trilogy: Narrative Geographies}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {145--170}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {Transcendent Spaces: Writing and Photography in the Trilogy}, year = {2010} }