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While on a structural level Ortiz Cofer narrates the first part of her novel in the South American style of magical realism made popular by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, and Isabel Allende, the plot also makes frequent thematic allusions to witch hunts, societal impositions on female self-realization, and rebel boyhoods familiar to readers of American classics such as The Scarlet Letter, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Crucible.
The second section, titled "Theorizing Gender NonConformity," consists of four essays in which the authors muse upon the origins of effeminate boyhoods of homosexual men, and the meaning of being a tomboy.
 
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