DIALOGUE WITH THE EXILE IN CRISTINA PERI ROSSI

Abstract

Cartography expands unlimitedly in diasporas. We are no longer talking about third spaces (Bhabha, 1994) populated by fateful immigrants who abandon themselves to the best luck - the worst luck - that they encounter along the way. We speak of bodies populated by third spaces that exercise deterritorialization and re-territorialization in their exile. In her book Díáspora (1976, 2001), as well as in all her writing, Cristina Peri Rossi lives her exile with her eyes on the south. Always observing the south of his word, entering into the "painful astonishment of the trip and its odyssey." (María Negroni, 2003: The badness of writing, IGITUR, Tarragona: 15) That trip imposed by the authority. Trip made in leathers, because “what personal objects -like amulets or fetishes- do we try to save from the diaspora, from loss, from uncertainty,” (Cristina Peri Rossi, 2001: Julio Cortázar, the great Cronopio. Omega, Barcelona: 26 ) what we are trying to rescue from exile.