Abstract

After winning the literary prize “Lengua de Trapo” in 1999, the Cuban writer Karla Suárez (Havana, 1969) published her first novel Silencios and later in 2005, a second one entitled La viajera. Both texts will be the focus of this article where I discuss the contributions they have made to the reconfiguration of a new Cuban national imaginary, the one that began its emerging after the collapse of Berlin’s wall in 1989 and is represented as a locus always transcended and multiplied.

The present article proposes the idea of Suarez’s writing as a way of resistance to the perpetual silence with which the current Cuban government has covered national issues suffered and experienced by its citizens, such as suicide, migration, madness among others. Both novels are an attempt of identification between the female characters portrayed in them and this new and displaced nation she is trying -through her work- to establish.

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