This article explores the relations between memory, history and literature (fiction) and between past, memory and future in three Latin American, Caribbean and Spanish novels published between 1995 and 2009, whose conflictive, contradictory and sometimes violent character configures and determines the challenges of the work and narratives of memory. It aims at visualizing the future dimension of memory in the writing of the recent traumatic past and deals with its generic repercussions in the texts. It stresses the role of memory narratives, particulary of fiction literature, in the current battles of memory and considers the texts themselves as battlefields.
Keywords:
memory work, history, literature, future, Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain
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Mackenbach, W. (2014). Texts as battlefields: memory, writing and future. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (2), Pág. 11–37. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2014.30888
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