História, memória, experiência e testemunho em Wendy Guerra

Abstract

The testimonies of historical contexts were used as a support by Latin American fiction (SARLO, 2017). In contemporary period, with deconstructionist ascension, literature has risen of experience in certain languages through its intertextual dialogues. Narratives hold a historical argument and the protagonist is a representative of the subjects who are silenced in the face of historiography (SELIGMANN-SILVA, 2003). This dissertation, with an emphasis in Literature and History, looks for the process of revisiting developed by Wendy Guerra through comparative studies. In order to think over the dialogues among experience, history and memory, the novels Todos se vão and Nunca Fui primeira dama will be analyzed. In these narratives the dark side of Cuba during the revolutionary and post-revolutionary context can be visualized, a fictional discourse reaffirms a self-diegetic position of individual experimentation. Wendy Guerra, as a representative of an invisible generation in history, produces an exponential narrative of the discussions between literature and the historical context, fictional discourse is a critical method of historiography and presents a new perspective on a contemporary Cuban context.