Displacement and the outdoors: a return journey

Authors

  • Sylvia Molloy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i10p18-37

Keywords:

return narratives, returner, Borges, home, homeland

Abstract

The present paper reflects on the return narratives and the condition of the returner, as the author names it, in the context of modern cultural migrations. In order to do so, the text analyzes the relation between a personal memory narrated in Varia imaginación and the essay about fictional texts by other writers –especially Argentinian ones.

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Author Biography

  • Sylvia Molloy

    Escritora y ensayista trilingüe, Sylvia Molloy ha publicado En breve cárcel (1981 y 2015), El común olvido (2002), Varia imaginación (2003) y Desarticulaciones (2010).

    Entre sus numerosos ensayos de crítica literaria, cabe mencionar: Las letras de Borges y otros ensayos (1999), Acto de presencia. La escritura autobiográfica en Hispanoamérica (1991, en inglés, 1996, en castellano) y Poses del fin de siglo. Desbordes del género en la modernidad (2012).

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Güiraldes, Ricardo.Raucho. Buenos Aires: Losada, 1969.

Molloy, Varia imaginación. Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2003.

Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991. New York: Viking, 1991.

Sommer, Doris.Foundational Fictions. The National Romances of Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.

Suleiman, Susan. Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook.Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

Van den Abbeele, George. “The Economy of Travel”, en Travel as Metaphor: From Montaigne to Rousseau. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991.

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Published

2015-12-10

Issue

No. 10: (july-december 2015) Dossier Biographical and autobiographical discourses in Spanish and Hispanic American literature

Section

Dossier

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MOLLOY, Sylvia. Displacement and the outdoors: a return journey. Caracol, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 10, p. 18–37, 2015. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2317-9651.v0i10p18-37. Disponível em: https://journals.usp.br/caracol/article/view/114538.. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.