Finding shelter in writing: a way of configuring the Cuban exile

Abstract

In order to think the Cuban cultural field, the image of an archipelago of internal and external exile is suggestive. This is due to the tensions of a " spread field " in spatial and symbolic terms in which, as Celina Manzoni has warned, the roaming has generated “nuevas modalidades de escritura: una renovada articulación de los modos de la memoria” (Manzoni, 2012, 3). Taking into account these considerations, we analyze Todos se van [2006], by Wendy Guerra, who, although living in Cuba, is considered as an exiled in the island. In this position, the novel takes literary thickness from a narrative project that is set to two movements: the instability of the established literary genres to tell a story and choosing silence as a core strategy of the narrative construction and, at the same time, of the identity construction of the female character who tells the story.