Abstract:

Abstract Focused in the auto-exile of a young Argentine woman in Europe, Matilde Sanchez’s novel La ingratitud builds a whole system of representation around the contact with a different linguistic community and, at the same time, it extends that otherness toward the identity tensions between feminine/masculine, father-daughter relationship, youth/eld, solitude/coexistence, national/foreign. All this involves Argentine complex background of political and social reality as well as ideological literary writing power to rebuild a defragmented social identity. Through literary resources as epistolary writing and stream of consciousness, Sánchez’s novel shows a problematic that will be essential throughout her entire work: relationship between subjective experience, memory and women discourse as part of a particular linguistic community.

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