Disturbing certainties: Exile, bodyand fiction in the works of Margarita García Robayo

The works of Margarita García Robayo (Cartagena de Indias, 1980) are characterized by a crude and ironic tone. To that extent, it seems the author has the intention of bringing the socially established into crisis by means of certain uncomfortable and disconcerting body images that reject society’s invariability condition. This essay proposes a reading of three of the author’s works, considering a dynamic and changing overlay between homeland and exile, body images that inhabit them, and a writing that can sometimes be self-referential, revealing her relationship with the body and, therefore, with memory.

• Main Author: Marín Lara, Karina (author)
• Format: article
• Language: spa
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Margarita García Robayo; literatura colombiana; literatura de mujeres; cuerpo y literatura; exilio y literatura; Colombian literature; women’s literature; body and literature; exile and literature
• Online Access: https://revistas.uasb.edu.ec/index.php/kipus/article/view/1035