Abstract
ABSTRACT This essay examines issues of displacement, exile, and non-belonging, and their impact on a subject’s sense of identity, in three novels by South American women writers: Ana Maria Machado (Brazil), Griselda Gambaro (Argentina), and Alejandra Costamagna (Chile). Furthermore, the essay discusses how memory and postmemory are fundamental elements in narratives in which the narrator and/or protagonist set out to write and rewrite self-identity, family and national histories.
Highlights
RESUMO Este ensaio examina questões relativas a deslocamento, exílio e não-pertencimento, e seu impacto sobre a constituição da subjetividade em três romances de escritoras sul-americanas: Ana Maria Machado (Brasil), Griselda Gambaro (Argentina), e Alejandra Costamagna (Chile)
O mar nunca transborda and El mar que nos trajo each presents a vision of the nation that foregrounds the participation of specific groups in the project of nation building, even if they were excluded from the hegemonic national narrative
The Brazilian and the Argentinean authors, on the contrary, problematize the idea of the nation as a fixed and unified concept, and underscore what Homi Bhabha has called the “ambivalence that haunts the idea of the nation” (BHABHA, 1990, p. 1)
Summary
RESUMO Este ensaio examina questões relativas a deslocamento, exílio e não-pertencimento, e seu impacto sobre a constituição da subjetividade em três romances de escritoras sul-americanas: Ana Maria Machado (Brasil), Griselda Gambaro (Argentina), e Alejandra Costamagna (Chile). The novels are O mar nunca transborda (1995) by Ana Maria Machado (Brazil, 1942); El mar que nos trajo (2001) by Griselda Gambaro (Argentina, 1928); and El sistema del tacto (2018) by Alejandra Costamagna (Chile, 1970).
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