Falar ou calar : eis a questão! As ditaduras do cone sul re-visitadas sob a ótica das escritoras Elsa Osorio e Marcela Serrano
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The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between History and Fiction by comparing the novels Para que no me olvides (1993) by Chilean writer, Marcela Serrano, and A veinte afios, Luz (1999) by the Argentinian, Elsa Osorio. Both novels present narratives that take specific moments of the political unfolding of their respective countries as their historic point of reference, that is, the period when military dictatorships spread throughout the Latin American Southern Cone in the 1970s ...
The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between History and Fiction by comparing the novels Para que no me olvides (1993) by Chilean writer, Marcela Serrano, and A veinte afios, Luz (1999) by the Argentinian, Elsa Osorio. Both novels present narratives that take specific moments of the political unfolding of their respective countries as their historic point of reference, that is, the period when military dictatorships spread throughout the Latin American Southern Cone in the 1970s and 1980s. Through their fictional works they give women a voice which seeks to recover both memory and identity. The viewpoint adopted by these two writers is that of re-writing history from the vantage point of view of the personal experiences of the protagonists, Blanca, in Para que no me olvides and Luz, in A veinte afios, Luz. Paradoxically, Blanca, who suffers from aphasia — condition which is a metaphor for the lack of communication that befalls women who infringe class and gender moral norms -, manages to communicate through reminiscences. These, by unveiling the hidden history of Chile during and after Pinochet's “dictatorship, totally contradict the official version. Luz, whose very name is charged with — associations, brings to light one ofthe most reprehensible crimes perpetrated under the Argentinian dictatorship: the robbery of the children of women political prisoners to be given in adoption to childless families of military officers. Both Serrano and Osorio by means of the exceptional nature — oftheirliterary devices, deconstruct the dominant ideological discourse thus breaking ha prolonged “silence to which women have been subjected. ...
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Organon. Porto Alegre, RS. Vol. 17, nesp (2003), p. 67-74
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