Narrar la(s) guerra(s) con las voces de mujeres: memoria, género y emociones. Una mirada comparada

Abstract

The paper undertakes a comparative analysis of three texts: War’s Unwomanly Faceby Svetlana Alexievich, the novel The Sleeping Voice by Dulce Chacón, and a testimony about women’s activism, resistance and imprisonment during the Francoist regime edited by Tomasa Cuevas. The aim of the study is to examine the problems of feminine authors’ narratives being excluded from official archivesof memory, as well as emotions. The issues are considered in two different political contexts which, nevertheless, reveal quite similar mechanisms of an organization using hegemonic discourses of power.

Keywords

• feminine authors' narratives of the war
• second world war
• spanish civil war
• gender
• women's memory
• emotions