Éxodo de Silvia Mistral: el diario de una refugiada republicana española
Abstract
This chapter analyzes Éxodo: diario de una refugiada española (1940) by Silvia Mistral, with the aim of examining how the work intertwines individual memory and collective experience within the framework of the Republican exile, as well as the historical, political, and gender-related reasons behind its critical marginalization. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines the cultural history of exile, autobiography theory, and gender studies, the article proposes a reading that highlights the hybrid nature of the text – situated between diary, chronicle, and testimony – its narrative strategies of dissolving the intimate into the collective, and the processes of legitimation and marginalization that shaped the author’s trajectory. The analysis ultimately reclaims Mistral’s work as both a literary and political testimony of major significance in the cultural history of exile
Submitted: Sept. 17, 2025 | Accepted: Sept. 19, 2025 | Published Dec. 15, 2025 | Language: es
Keywords Collective memory • Women’s writing • Republican exile • Autobiographical literature
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