Exilios fragmentados en Luisa Futoransky y Alicia Kozameh, dos autoras de la diáspora argentina / Fragmented Exiles in Luisa Futoransky and Alicia Kozameh, Two Authors of Argentinean Diaspora

Abstract

In this article, we analyze the aspect of forced or voluntary exile in “El Formosa” (2009) by Luisa Futoransky and “259 saltos” (2001/2013) by Alicia Kozameh, both of them exiled Argentine authors. Luisa Futoransky (born in 1939) has been an eternal traveler who passed years of her life in Italy, Israel, Japan, and China; she is poet, essayist, and novelist; since 1981 she has been living in Paris. Alicia Kozameh (born in 1953) was a political prisoner of Military Dictatorship in Argentina and had to go to exile definitively in 1980 and has been living in Los Angeles since 1988. The analyzed texts have in common the fact that they are very difficult to classify following a classical scheme of literary genres. They play with elements of autofiction and testimonio and are extremely fragmentary. Moreover, multiculturalism and plurilinguism play an important role in the texts. Keywords: Exile, Military Dictatorship, Alicia Kozameh, Luisa Futoransky, Fragmentation.