Memory and Insubordination in the Narrative of Chilean Women in the 21st Century
Memoria e insubordinación en la narrativa de mujeres chilenas siglo XXI
Author
Espinosa H., Patricia
Abstract
This article presents ten Chilean female narrators who started publishing in the year 2000. An analysis revealed the predominance of a feminine self on a permanent crisis of representation, which is constructed through a constant exercise of memory oriented towards the reconfiguring of its identity. This narrative confirms that the female subject is a differentiated entity in the face of the masculine, and that it is in a constant process of insubordination despite all of that which keeps her from surviving in a postutopian context where all she has left to do is make sure she survives the day-to-day. Este artículo aborda a diez narradoras chilenas que comienzan a publicar a partir del 2000. Por medio del análisis constatamos el predominio de un yo femenino en permanente crisis de representatividad, que se construye en un ejercicio constante de memoria orientado a la reconfiguración de su identidad. Esta narrativa confirma a la sujeto como una entidad diferenciada ante lo masculino, y en un constante proceso de insubordinación ante todo aquello que castre su sobrevivencia, en un contexto postutópico, donde solo le queda velar por resistir el día a día.