The Double Exile of Women: Itineraries of the Expulsión

Abstract

This work seeks to show the double exile that throughout history women have suffered: the territorial and political exclusion and the absence of their experiences in the canonical accounts of this political punishment. In order to do this, the Odyssey, as an archetypal poem of exile, will be used to reveal the double expulsion of Penelope. This leads to investigate the historical relationship that women have had with exile, which goes together with their consideration or not as political right’s subject. Although this analysis is general, in some points it focuses its attention on the exiles of the last civic-military dictatorships of the Latin American Southern Cone.