Word: norteamericana
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Torpid Tropics. That Grace is an anthropologist and trained observer is of great importance. Any other method of narration might have turned the novel into a pastiche of psychological and social pathology. To begin with, there is Charlotte's education as a norteamericana: "She was immaculate of history, innocent of politics. There were startling vacuums in her store of common knowledge. During the two years she spent at Berkeley before she ran away to New York with an untenured instructor named Warren Bogart, she had read mainly the Brontës and Vogue, bought a loom, gone home...
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