Historiography and literature: Some considerations about literature written by testimonies of historical facts

Abstract

Currently the analysis of the reception of literary works from the interdisciplinary approach allows to observe other ways of making history by exposing it through narratives that hold the hidden and profound truth of the author, of a people or region; discourses based on a historical fact, narrated by testimonies that used the memory and interpretation of the facts lived to represent them and give other perspectives of analysis in which it is proposed not only to award these works as key pieces of literature but to take them into account as historiographic references. For the analysis and considerations that are made in this article are resumed the ideas of Alfonso Reyes, Paul Ricoeur, Hayden White, Octavio Paz, David Mariezkurrena Iturmendi, among other authors who have made analyses that seek to make visible the intrinsic articulation between history and literature of some narratives as well as the interdisciplinary commitment from which some narratives must be studied.

Keywords

• historical fact
• history
• literature
• memory
• testimony