Finding shelter in writing: a way of configuring the Cuban exile
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v1i7p254-278Keywords:
Cuba, exile, female writersAbstract
In order to think the Cuban cultural field, the image of an archipelago of internal and external exile is suggestive. This is due to the tensions of a " spread field " in spatial and symbolic terms in which, as Celina Manzoni has warned, the roaming has generated “nuevas modalidades de escritura: una renovada articulación de los modos de la memoria” (Manzoni, 2012, 3). Taking into account these considerations, we analyze Todos se van [2006], by Wendy Guerra, who, although living in Cuba, is considered as an exiled in the island. In this position, the novel takes literary thickness from a narrative project that is set to two movements: the instability of the established literary genres to tell a story and choosing silence as a core strategy of the narrative construction and, at the same time, of the identity construction of the female character who tells the story.
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