Rewriting History from the Border. Reparation of Memory in Maja Haderlap‘s Engel des Vergessens and Sandra Cisneros‘ Caramelo or puro cuento

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cultural identity, border, memory, transnational, comparative literature

Abstract

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. 

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Author Biography

  • Ana Gimenez Calpe, University of Valencia

    Ana Giménez Calpe graduated in Germanic Studies and in Audiovisual Communication from the University of Valencia (Universitat de València, Spain). She received her Ph.D from the same university in February 2014 with a dissertation entitled “Von Prinzessinnen zu Königinnen? Gender (De)Konstruktion in ausgewählten Theatertexten von Elfriede Jelinek”. Various research stays in German speaking countries and in the United States, such as in the Elfriede Jelinek Forschungszentrum at the University of Vienna (Austria) and in the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Between 2005 and 2009 she worked in the field of the mass media. Since 2012 she has worked at the University of Valencia and at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Her academic and research interests include drama, postcolonial studies and feminist theory. 

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Published

2016-04-23

Issue

No. 7 (2016)

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ARTICLES

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Rewriting History from the Border. Reparation of Memory in Maja Haderlap‘s Engel des Vergessens and Sandra Cisneros‘ Caramelo or puro cuento. (2016). Castilla. Estudios De Literatura, 7, 307-327. https://revistas.uva.es/index.php/castilla/article/view/316