Subversive silences : nonverbal expression and implicit narrative strategies in the works of Latin American women writers /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Weldt-Basson, Helene Carol, 1958-
Imprint:	Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2009.
Description:	277 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Spanish American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism. Nonverbal communication in literature. Nonverbal communication in literature. Spanish American fiction. Spanish American fiction -- Women authors. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7694381

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ISBN:	9780838641729 (alk. paper) 0838641725 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-267) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
From Feminism to Gender Theory
Acknowledgments
1. Language and Silence: A Theoretical Overview
2. Paradoxical Silence, Part I: "Overreading" the Works of Marta Brunet
3. Paradoxical Silence, Part II: Silence/Narrative Voice in the Works of María Luisa Bombal
4. The Encoded Silence of Rosario Castellanos: Coding, Paradox, and Parentheses
5. Hyperbolic Silence: Agon and Irony in the Works of Isabel Allende
6. Symbolic Silence: Rosario Ferré's Equation of Women and Puerto Rico
7. Parodic Silence: Ritual and Genre in Laura Esquivel
8. Cultural Silence: Naive Narrators, Inverted Icons, and Bilingual Gaps in the Works of Sandra Cisneros
9. Conclusions: Toward a Feminist Poetics of Silence
Notes
References
Index

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