| Sumario: | In this essay, we analyze the impact of Clarice Lispector's short stories on the narrative projects of two Chilean writers of Jewish descent: Marjorie Agosín and Andrea Jeftanovic. We will explore how the botanical rhetoric deployed by Lispector served as a model for Agosín and Jeftanovic, as well as for other women authors who, later, would achieve international renown. Specifically, we will describe how this botanical rhetoric allows these Jewish voices located in (post)dictatorial Chile to complete a double purpose: on the one hand, to dismantle the culture of abuse in the host society, and on the other, to recover ancestral memories lost in the diaspora. Like Agosín and Jeftanovic, we learn from Lispector's writing: The echoes of the past can still be heard at the level of wildlife.
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