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Childhood Exile: Memories and Returns

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dc.contributor.authorArfuch, Leonor
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-11T16:57:05Z
dc.date.available2017-09-11T16:57:05Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-15
dc.description.abstractIn the context of contemporary forced migrations, my paper tackles the problem of political exile. I will take as my main area of concern a unique experience—that of children whose parents were obliged to escape the repression of the Chilean (1973-1989) and Argentinian (1976- 1983) dictatorships and for whom living “outside the lines” was often a matter of life and death. I am referring to children born in exile and who were affected by family trauma, or exiled-children who moved with their parents toward an uncertain destiny, carrying with them only a few objects as vestiges of home. Some of these children were later sent to Cuba to live in the care of “social parents,” caretakers who took responsibility for the children when the children’s militant parents decided to return to their countries of origin to fight against the dictatorships. My analysis will focus on recent works by four women who have lived through these experiences and whose narratives lie “outside the lines” of canonical genres: Verónica Gerber-Bicceci and Laura Alcoba (Argentina), who have written autobiographical and self-fictional novels; Macarena Aguiló (Chile) and Virginia Croatto (Argentina), who have produced autobiographical and testimonial films. Despite differences in style, we find in their cultural production some undeniable marks of gender –looks, images, assessments- that reveal unique subjectivities. In all of these narratives, personal experience interfaces with collective memory and, for that reason, has an important ethical and political impact.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/33902
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectmigrationen_US
dc.subjectpolitical exileen_US
dc.subjectChilean dictatorshipen_US
dc.subjectArgentinian dictatorshipen_US
dc.subjectchildrenen_US
dc.subjectVerónica Gerber-Biccecien_US
dc.subjectLaura Alcobaen_US
dc.subjectMacarena Aguilóen_US
dc.subjectVirginia Croattoen_US
dc.titleChildhood Exile: Memories and Returnsen_US
dc.typeAbstracten_US

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