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The description “the clamor of passion” draws attention to the disruption of desire and how it contrasts with the “silent dance” of everyday existence. 30 In Allende’s view, this involves the creation of plurality in human relationships and allows for a sense of belonging that transcends all tangible territories. As The Sum of Our Days progresses, the emphasis on affective engagement intensifies where this act of loving creates a psychic space that is both imaginary and real. Allende writes to her daughter in the following passage: I realized that he, too, had entered that mysterious zone of the most secret surrender; he too, had divested himself of his armor and, like me, opened his heart.
The negative side of that is that if I drop dead in the street, no one will notice but, in the end, that is a cheap price to pay for liberty. The price I would pay in Chile would be high indeed, because there diversity is not as yet appreciated. In California, the only thing that isn’t tolerated is intolerance. ” However, it is also a realistic portrayal of California in that for Allende, it has become a site where she is able to advocate tolerance and is encouraged by the community with which she interacts.
As Allende explains, in order to write about nation, she must write about loving personal relationships with her husband, family, and friends because “nation and tribe are confused in [her] mind” (MIC xv). In The Sum of Our Days, Allende continues to emphasize the space of love and affective engagement and its relation to nation and “tribe”; in the final two pages alone, the word love is used five times. What are we to make of Allende’s description of love as a “territory” where we are not “foreigners”?
