Finding shelter in writing: a way of configuring the Cuban exile

• Autor(a) principal: González, María Virginia
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Caracol (São Paulo. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/caracol/article/view/98949
• topic: Cuba; exilio; escritoras.; Cuba; exile; female writers

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.