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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weldt-Basson, Helene Carol, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish American fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.

Spanish American fiction.

Spanish American fiction--Women authors.

Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Nonverbal communication in literature.

Physical Description:

277 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2009]

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780838641729

0838641725

OCLC:

244628737