Subjective Landscapes in Beatriz García-Huidobro’s Hasta ya no ir

Authors

  • Yolanda Melgar Pernías

Keywords:

Female identity, Chile, silence, precarity, Bildung

Abstract

The narrative work of the writer Beatriz García-Huidobro (Santiago de Chile, 1960) travels through a landscape of subjectivities that get close to the abyss of the almost total annihilation. Abuse and misery are recreated in her work through the construction of the “minimal lives” of female subjects, very often children, which announce their subjective precarity by silencing it. Silence, indeed, resounds in the work of the Chilean author, a silence that reflects on the (im)possibilities of a transition into new forms of identity. The aim of this article is the description of the landscapes that make up the subjective configuration of the main character in her first novel, Hasta ya no ir (1996), along with the reflection, even within precarity and silence, on the possibility of emergence of alternative identities.

Published

2017-06-02

Issue

Section

Transiciones