Exile, Errancy and fragmented Identities in the short fiction of hispanic-american famele writers livin in Spain

Abstract

This article aims to explore the intercultural space that originates in the publications of Spanish-American women writers who have settled in Spain and whose work is published by Spanish publishers. The selected authors, Clara Obligado, Cristina Peri Rossi, Guadalupe Nettel, Flavia Company, Isabel Mellado, Inés Mendoza, Mónica Ojeda and María Fernanda Ampuero are important figures in the Hispanic narrative, both American and peninsular, although their writing and, above all, their positioning as authors, evidences the cultural marks of their communities of origin and life experiences, motivated by exile or migration for personal or professional reasons. Based on the analysis of their
short stories, the narrative affinities and predominant writing strategies and critical continuities in the reception of their work are studied from the perspective of generational and experiential plurality. The wandering and migration that runs
through the different books selected are analysed from the critical contributions of the fantastic or unusual, insofar as the non–mimetic options explain the stories of social and gender violence of their protagonists, from fragmented and monstrous identities, disturbing dualities or demonic maternities. Non–mimetic fiction shows that the unusualness of these narratives, far from obeying only immutable categories –the transgression of the real– is determined in its expression and reception by cognitive, cultural or discursive conditioning factors, which express the borderline and itinerant character that is at the creative base of these works.