Inheritance, Fiction, and the Exile Without Protagonists explores the literary construction of inherited exile through the narrative and critical production of María Rosa Lojo, whose unique perspective as the daughter of a Spanish Republican exile situates her writing at the confluence of memory, identity, and historical fiction. The study begins with a detailed overview of Spanish emigration to Argentina, framing the persistent presence of Spain in the Río de la Plata region from the 16th to the 20th century as a cultural and literary force. Rather than focusing on the direct experience of exile, the work examines how the descendants of exiles and immigrants articulate a second-generation experience marked by displacement, nostalgia, and fragmented identity, giving rise to the notion of "exile without protagonists." Through an interstitial lens that merges history and fiction, Lojo's narrative reconfigures Argentine identity by questioning binary oppositions such as center/periphery, civilization/barbarism, and memory/oblivion, while invoking a metafictional reflection on the act of narrating from the margins. Her novel La pasión de los nómades emerges as a pivotal text, transforming autobiographical traces into a broader literary meditation on diasporic subjectivity and the utopian desire for return—a desire complicated by the absence of a lived homeland in the second generation. Ultimately, Lojo's voice inscribes a new space of authorship, the border, where the ambiguity of her own experience becomes a site of literary innovation and cultural critique. This analysis highlights how the memory of exile, rather than fading, mutates into symbolic and narrative frameworks that re-signify both personal history and national mythology.
