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Julia Alvarez ,is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. ... Born in New York, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.
As being used here, the asyndeton gives the reality that
the list of what is not on the island is endless or infinite. The anaphora adds
punch or climax, that nothing having to do with society can be seen. Not only that,
the list is not only endless, it is ardently void of anything.
