«Cristina Santos takes up the vexing issue of a feminine identity in the writing of two of the most important Latin American authors - the brilliant Clarice Lispector and the highly original Carmen Boullosa - and takes her discussion to a new level of philosophically informed criticism. Cristina Santos explains that language usage binds us to specific social precepts, but that the narrative technique of writers like Lispector and Boullosa has advanced a mode of literary expression that openly subverts the socio-cultural bonds of language that have been imposed on women.» (Mario J. Valdés, University of Toronto, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Member, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, Member, Academy of Literary Studies, U.S.A., 1991 President, Modern Language Association).