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Author:

Weldt-Basson, Helene Carol, 1958-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

277 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Spanish American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Nonverbal communication in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-267) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0838641725 (alk. paper)
9780838641729 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)244628737

LCCN:

2008037923

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)