Reescribir la historia desde la frontera: reparación de la memoria en Engel des Vergessens de Maja Haderlap y Caramelo o puro cuento de Sandra Cisneros
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Giménez Calpe, Ana
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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2016
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Castilla: Estudios de Literatura ISSN 1989-7383 Nº. 7, 2016
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By examining and comparing two recent novels, Maja Haderlap's Engel des Vergessens and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo or puro cuento, this investigations explores the way both texts rewrite national history by recovering and reorganizing the family memories of the two narrators. This process takes place in a transnational context, which suspends the boundaries between neighbour countries. In this sense, the paper discusses the rewriting of national memory from the perspective of some particular actants, who are in continuous crossing of borders.