On Individual Memories and Spanish and Argentinian Collectives

Women in Aldecoa and Leal

Abstract

This article is part of the studies of the relations between literature, history and collective and individual memories. It is proposed to study the republican female representations and the relations between women in the titles Historia de una maestra (1990), Mujeres de Negro (1994) and La Fuerza del Destino (1997), by Josefina Aldecoa, and Mulheres que mordem (2015), by Beatriz Leal, Spanish and Hispanic-American literaly work that thematize the Spanish Civil War, the World War II and the dictatorial period in Spain and Argentina, from a female protagonism point of view. The literaly Corpus is approached based on theoretical reflections that comes from the memory concept; it is a question of thinking about how the recollections of the characters arise in the fracture of the historical discourse and how they influence the course of the novels. Thus, it is intended to reflect critically and analytically on this narratives, based in the arguments from authors who work in the related areas of memory and history, such as Le Goff (2033), Hallbwachs (1990), among others. The paper intends to contribute to discussions about collective and individual memory and female resistance in contexts of social oppression in Spain and Argentina, especially during the war and post-war.

Key-words: Memory; Female representation; History.