Resumen de Alterity and uprooting in the autobiographical experiences of exile of Mercè Rodoreda and Anna Murià
This study considers the exile experienced by Mercè Rodoreda and Anna Murià via the letters that they wrote between themselves and to others. With a melancholic and often desperate tone, they expressed their longing for an unreal, imaginary Catalonia, as well as a feeling of estrangement when returning to an unfamiliar, war-torn Barcelona. The spatial uprooting caused by the traumatic experience of exile was worsened by a process of gender-based alienation, with both writers, more or less consciously or voluntarily, confronting the subordinate role reserved for women in relation to their sentimental partners, as per the etiquette of the era.