Abstract:This essay examines issues of displacement, exile, and non-belonging, and their impact on a subject’s sense of identity, in three novels by South American women writers: Ana Maria Machado (Brazil), Griselda Gambaro (Argentina), and Alejandra Costamagna (Chile). Furthermore, the essay discusses how memory and postmemory are fundamental elements in narratives in which the narrator and/or protagonist set out to write and rewrite self-identity, family and national histories.
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