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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 11/04
Discourse of Silence in Alcanfor and "Te deix, amor, la mar com a penyora"
Kathleen M. Glenn
March 2004
University of California, Berkeley
Center for German and European Studies
Abstract
Contemporary Spanish literature abounds in narratives where silence has an important function. In the fiction of Cristina Fernández Cubas it has epistemological implications. Mercé Rodoreda and Maria Barbal employ a rhetoric of silence to call attention to the situation of women who are obliged to remain silent and suffer without protest. Carme Riera and Dulce Chacón utilize silences, and acts of breaking silence, to emphasize the lack of voice of marginal beings and to highlight sexual, socioeconomic and political inequalities. In the present paper, I focus on the role of silence in a novel by Barbal and a story by Riera.
