Families and forced displacements between Spain and Argentina in women's narratives on migration and exile

Childhood and adolescence around consanguineous prostheses and supervening filiations

Abstract

Narrative offers a field susceptible to allowing the expression of histories of forced displacement through the literary elaboration of a memory of what has been experienced as migration or exile, as well as its consequences. In this type of verbal manifestation, the so-called writings of the self prevail, as they allow the transposition of the experience into an experiential narrative. These textualities, despite focusing on a specific subject who is the protagonist of episodes of estrangement and discomfort, shed light on social groups surrounding the main subject of the narrative. In this regard, families constitute a complex universe, capable of allowing the discovery of important aspects involved in the territorial and identity displacements that result from a family's settling in another country and the effects these have on childhood and adolescence.

We will consider the texts Estuvimos cantando (María García Campelo, 2015), Aurelia quiere oír (María Rosa Iglesias, 2019), La abuela civil española (Andrea Stefanoni, 2014) and one of the stories of Transterradas. El exilio infantil y juvenil como lugar de memoria (Marisa González de Oleaga's, 2019, "En tierra de nadie / Todo lo que era mío").