%0 Journal Article
%T Narrative Closure and  Woman : The Case of V¨ªrgenes y m¨¢rtires
%A Diana L. V¨¦lez
%J Centro Journal
%D 2003
%I 
%X The article analyzes two texts in the collection Virgenes y m rtires:  Letra para salsa y tres soneos por encargo  by Ana Lydia Vega and  Milagros, Calle Mercurio  by Carmen Lugo Filippi. The texts, which are  writerly  in the Barthesian sense, are open texts. The resistance to narrative closure, it is argued here, allows the distanced reader to question gender arrangements and the ethical positions available to women in society. It is concluded that  woman s place  is problematic and ultimately, an impossible subject position
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