“Tres homiños” y otras narraciones desconocidas a la luz de los Diarios y la biografía de Syra Alonso, exiliada gallega en México

Abstract

The so-called self-writings that were produced as a result of the Spanish Republican exile have been an invaluable source of reference for history, but they have been less studied from a literary perspective, even more so if she was an author and had no other work and, even more so, if her reading could not be done in a hegemonic language. This is the case of Syra Alonso, a Galician exile in Mexico, who fled with her three children after the murder of her husband, the avant-garde painter Francisco Miguel. These circumstances prompted the writing of her diaries: the Diario de Tordoia, written in Galicia before leaving for exile, and the Diario de Actopan, written in Mexico a year after her arrival, both published in full in Galician for the first time in 2000. After a hemerographic research work, the gathering in this article of up to seven unknown narrations of the author, published between 1943 and 1951 in two Mexican literary magazines, reinterpret Syra Alonso's work and offers answers to essential biographical moments of her exile, which were unknown until now. Therefore, we propose, on the one hand, an analysis of the critical reception of her Diaries that can respond to the invisibility of the author within the canon and, on the other hand, a contextual, literary and even ethnographic analysis of these narratives in dialogue with her diaristic work and her own biography. All this, in view of the urgency of a present marked by the discovery of Francisco Miguel's body in a mass grave in Bértoa a few months ago. It´s a present of historical memory, reparation, and homage.