Subversive silences : nonverbal expression and implicit narrative strategies in the works of Latin American women writers / Helene Carol Weldt-Basson.

Author/creator Weldt-Basson, Helene Carol, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2009.
Description277 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Spanish American fiction--Women authors. --History and criticism.
Spanish American fiction--20th century. --History and criticism.
Nonverbal communication in literature.

Contents Language and silence : a theoretical overview -- Paradoxical silence, part I : "overreading" the works of Marta Brunet -- Paradoxical silence, part II : silence/narrative voice in the works of María Luisa Bombal -- The encoded silence of Rosario Castellanos : coding, paradox, and parentheses -- Hyperbolic silence : agony and irony in the works of Isabel Allende -- Symbolic silence : Rosario Ferré's equation of women and Puerto Rico -- Parodic silence : ritual and genre in Laura Esquivel -- Cultural silence : naive narrators, inverted icons, and bilingual gaps in the works of Sandra Cisneros -- Conclusions: Toward a feminist poetics of silence.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-267) and index.
LCCN 2008037923
ISBN9780838641729 (alk. paper)
ISBN0838641725 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ7081.5 .W45 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold