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I lost ranges of mountains wherein I could sleep. I lost orchards of gold that were sweet to live. ]10 The sense of loss in exile that informs this poem is also palpable in 32 The Presence in Absence of Exile "The Emigrant Jew," in which a Jewish woman in exile during the Second World War speaks of being "cut off from the earth" (Mistral, 135). In "The Foreigner," the speaker observes the unalterable alienation of the foreign woman who lives in her town, and in "The Disburdened," the exile's sense of emptiness becomes a metaphor for death.
Poor women move in vast numbers from the countryside to the cities, and from one country to another, in search of economic survival. The cruelly named low-intensity warfare aimed primarily at rural 30 The Presence in Absence of Exile civilian populations that has so badly harmed so much of Central America in the past years has created masses of refugees, many of whom are women; the military coups of the early 1970s in Chile, Argentina, andUruguay sent many women into exile. Whether forced or voluntary, exile is primarily from, and not to, a place.
When Isabel and Angel sing "Madre," their audiences inevitably hear references to Violeta Parra. Without the emotional pull of the real mother, the metaphor of mother would have little power. The myth of the indigenous mother as the embodiment of racial and cultural heritage, however, masks the more complex relationship between the geopolitical reality of Latin American neocolonialism and a high culture that claims European roots, particularly in the countries whose writers I discuss here. It is probably not a coincidence that the majority of these writers are the daughters or granddaughters of immigrants.
