Silence
When Stacey Schlau mentions the terminology used by Castro-Klarén and LucÃa Guerra-Cunningham “that women writers can only conceive their writing by exiling themselves in the hegemonic official spaces of masculine literary modelsâ€? at same time took me to Daniela’s observation about silence.
The silence used by Kozameh surely was a result of a political rule imposed by an androcentric society. Kozameh did not really mention the torture, as she left prison with her two notebooks, we do not even know till what point her notes about torture were (not) silenced and as a way to protect herself from being punished and more imprisonment. Schlau also mentions the evidence of “censorship and other forms of silence [used] in the writings of colonial women� something that still happen today. Maybe she is not only traumatized by the violence in prison that prevents her from talking about it, but also she is submitting herself to the pressure a society where gender is constructed everyday putting women in a lower position in relation to men.
I would say that Kozameh had also chosen an exile as the best option to separate herself from all the suffering she was going through as a way to survive. Even though her writings literally describe the most (?) delicate and traumatic moments of her life, she definitely cannot be/ is not healed from her trauma because “trauma is beyond language� (Gilmore 6).
“[…] Those who can tell their stories benefit from the therapeutic balm of words, the path to this achievement is strewn with obstacles (7).� Kozameh had someway overcome these obstacles being able to put down in writing her experiences, but some other barriers still exist and the trauma will never be completely healed.