Lectora 31: New Approaches to Spaces of Belonging for Exiled Women in Latin America

Issue 31 of Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat has been published. This volume includes a dossier, edited by Eugenia Helena Houvenaghel (Universiteit Utrecht) and Paola Bellomi (Università degli Studi di Siena), dedicated to the study of women intellectuals in Latin American exile. Entitled Crear un espacio propio: nuevos enfoques sobre espacios de pertenencia de mujeres exiliadas en América Latina, this dossier proposes two new theoretical approaches to exile – the trans-exilic and the transactional – as frameworks that can illuminate the connections that shape the spaces of women in exile. The different articles in this dossier are dedicated to figures such as Rosa Chacel, Fanny Rabel, Carlota O’Neill, Myriam Moscona, Sabina Berman, Cecilia G. de Guilarte and second-generation women exiles, as well as to the journal Pont Blau, and reveal that spaces of displacement function as dynamic systems wherein personal, interpersonal, and social dimensions interact in complex configurations that traditional literary analysis frequently overlooks. The dossier is preceded by an invited article by Michèle Soriano (Université Tolouse II Jean Jaurès) entitled Feminismos sucios y metodologías carroñeras. The miscellaneous section offers analyses of authors such as Gloria Anzaldúa, María Fernanda Ampuero, Fernanda Melchor, Lina Meruane, Katerina Angelaki-Rooke, and Renée Lafont, as well as articles on digital art, ptolemaic astrology, and the challenges of public engagement for feminist literary theory. The journal, which as usual includes a section of book reviews, concludes with a section dedicated to the Palestinian poet Jumana Mustafa, which includes a selection of poems in Arabic and translated into English and Spanish by Dana Dhailieh and Clarisa Danaé Fonseca Azuara.