Argos
Volume 29, Issue 56, 2012, Pages 88-108

Blogs of exile: Women's writings on the web [Bitácoras del exilio: Escritura de mujeres en la red] (Article)

Villa M.B.
  • a Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela

Abstract

The nineteenth century writing practices were mediated by the emergence of printing technology and image reproduction techniques. In today's world internet provides a technological platform for the diffusion of new forms of writing: logbooks or blogs. In this case we analyze three Venezuelan writers who live abroad or have lived in a foreign country for a long time, women writers who use blogs as a form of exhibiting their actual living conditions in countries that are far away from their own. Raquel Rivas Rojas, Kira Kariakin, and Vivian Watson represent a "voluntary exile"; their discursive proposals -impregnated with nostalgia and melancholy- reflect a search for feminine identity recurring to memory in order to express the frustration of distance. All of them are considered new intellectuals on the digital platform because they have the faculty to represent, embody, and articulate a message, an attitude, a philosophy or opinion for and in favor of the public.

Author Keywords

Migration Exile memory Identity Electronic platform Intellectual woman Subjectivity

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84872239027&partnerID=40&md5=c0dc58cdc2a084d03516cb0937827e27

ISSN: 02541637
Original Language: English; Spanish; French