La experiencia exiliar infantil en dos obras de Laura Alcoba

Abstract

The experience of childhood exile reconfigures the way of narrating the traumatic past suffered by the children of detained and/or disappeared militants. Time and space are two variables that in Laura Alcoba´s case allowed her to narrate in a foreign language fragment of that Argentine childhood and her subsequent exile. The selected works, El azul de las Abejas (2014) and La danza de la araña (2018) allow us to analyze, on the one hand, the voice of the exiled woman, but also that of her childhood, which traces a direct line with the most recent dictatorial past of Argentina and the Southern Cone. It is therefore essential to think about the representation of childhood exile and how it is narrated after several decades of silence through the language she learns in a distant country and in which she chooses to stay