MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 080826s2009 nju b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPQ7081.5$b.W45 2009
082 00 $a863/.64099287$222
100 1 $aWeldt-Basson, Helene Carol,$d1958-
245 10 $aSubversive silences :$bnonverbal expression and implicit narrative strategies in the works of Latin American women writers /$cHelene Carol Weldt-Basson.
260 $aMadison [N.J.] :$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press,$cc2009.
300 $a277 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-267) and index.
505 0 $aLanguage 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.
650 0 $aSpanish American fiction$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSpanish American fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aNonverbal communication in literature.