This book offers a critical reading of the relationship between the concepts of nationalism and exile during the period immediately after the dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), also known as the post-dictatorship. Beginning with an analysis of the ideological debates in the intellectual camp of the 1980s in Rio de la Plata, the author argues that the literature of exile, rather than a form of writing particular to that time, is part of a much wider and more complex literary tradition that deserves to be revisited. This book brings a new focus to the study of exile and diaspora in Latin America and the place these phenomena occupy in literary canon formation in the late twentieth century.