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| Subversive Silences: Nonverbal Expression and Implicit Narrative Strategies in the Works of Latin American Women Writers |
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Author - Helen Carol Weldt-Basson
Publication Date - April 2009
Number of Pages - 277
ISBN #9780838641729
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Price $58.50 - Price subject to change
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Subversive Silences asserts that throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Latin American women writers have appropiated the notion of submissive silence and inverted it to constitute a sign of women's rebellion against the passive silence imposed by patriarchy. The book illustrates how seven contemporary Hispance women writers employ silence thematically and stylistically in the form of implicit narrative strategies, such as hyperbole, irony, parody, and cultural symbol, to create a feminist perspective in their texts.
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| Author/Editor Biographies |
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| Helene Carol Weldt-Basson received a BA from Barnard College (1979), and MA from Harvard University (1980), and a PhD from Columbia University (1987) in Latin American literature. She has taught at Columbia and Fordham Universities in New York, and is currently an Associate Professor of Spanish at Wayne State University. She is the author of Augusto Roa Bastos's I The Supreme: A Dialogic Perspective (1993) and numerous articles on twentieth-century and contemporary Latin American literature. |
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