Identidad territorial y postmemorias en Manzanilla del insomnio (2002) de Ivonne Gordon

Abstract

This essay poses that Ivonne Gordon’s lyrical speakers refect on their identity forged in the space in-between the cultural borders separating the worlds where they live. The paper uses a theoretical framework based on concepts developed by critics who study spaces as territories where cultural exchange happens. It studies how concepts such as diaspora, exile and migration work within the spaces created in Ivonne Gordon’s poems. This article also uses Marianne Hirsh’s concept of postmemory, the artistic works of children whose grandparents or parents suffered antisemitic persecution including the holocaust. Manzanillas del insomnio (2002) by the Ecuadorian poet Ivonne Gordon fts within the defnition of postmemories because it recreates the memory of her father who experience antisemitic prosecution in Europe.