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

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

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Description	277 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject	Spanish American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	Spanish American fiction -- Women authors.
	Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	Spanish American fiction.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Nonverbal communication in literature.
	Nonverbal communication in literature.
ISBN	9780838641729 alkaline paper
	0838641725 alkaline paper