The Metaphorical Exile of Identity in Selected Stories by Milia Gayoso Manzur and Edmundo Paz Soldán
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This study proposes an interpretation of exile in metaphorical terms, namely a binary association which relates territorial uprooting to a distance that a sick subject carries out either from the socio-cultural context of reference or from his own subjective identity. We intend to analyze the disease as a factor of de-territorialization, in order to see how the pathological condition may cause a withdrawal of the Egoidentity that leads, in the sick subject, to: a) a renunciation of existence (it goes from the extreme “thanatic impulse” to less traumatic forms of isolation and confinement) or b) a refusal to reintegrate into the human dimension, turning down all possible forms of recovery/rehabilitation. For our symbolic approach we selected the short stories “Con las alas rotas” and “La mirada ausente”, included in the volume Gorriones bajo la lluvia (2020), authored by the Paraguayan Milia Gayoso Manzur, and the story “El croata” which the Bolivian Edmundo Paz Soldán wrote for the thematic anthology Excesos del cuerpo (2009). The limitations related to a pathological state are seen as a set of factors which can break the ties that the individuals maintain with their social environment and with the perception of their own body: an experience of detachment or exile in loco. [Article copies available for a fee from The Transformative Studies Institute. E-mail address: [email protected] Website: http://www.transformativestudies.org ©2024 by The Transformative Studies Institute. All rights reserved.]
Source: Theory in Action
Author: Giuseppe Riccardi
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404109482