La herida que es recordar: história e memória no romance Fe en disfraz de Mayra Santos-Febres

Abstract

The dissertation entitled La herida, que es recordar: história and memória in Mayra Santos-Febres's novel Fe en disfraz, proposes a reading of the novel referenced in the Puerto Rican author Mayra Santos-Febres, focusing on the author's interpretative proposals for categories such as memory and history, and the way in which fictionally articulates the story-stories that are engaged in the text. Memory and history are currently much explored, however, in the research developed, the subject will be approached considering the contexts of Brazil and Puerto Rico referenced in the corpus of the research. Contemporaneously, there have been numerous re-readings of versions presented by traditional historiography regarding the memory of colonization and enslavement, it is precisely this movement that is observed in the novel studied here, so this research aims to make visible the intellectual and artistic production of authorship Feminine and black that, in the context of Latin America, proposes to critically re-read ancestral memories, as is the case of Santos-Febres. In order to do so, we have dialogues with theoretical references from Cultural Studies, Literature Theory, Feminist Studies, among which are authors Stuart Hall (2003), Tomás Tadeu (2014); (1998), Lélia González (1998), Euridice Figueiredo (2010), Pollack (1986) ), Ricouer (2007), Nora (1996), Benjamin (2012), among others. In dialogue with this referential, memory is here worked as production, that is, in the novel Fe en disfraz, the memory is not individual, but collective, as it is not spontaneous, but produced, due to issues such as memory duty And the politics of memory. Thus, Mayra Santos-Febres can be inserted within a group of insurgent intellectuals, for committing to make a counter-reading of the women's stories-memories of which the literary narrative here studied deals with.