Short story, long memory : protagonist representations black in three Hispan American historical romances

Abstract

This work aims to highlight the figure of the black woman as a literary character in the novel Hispanic-American history and recount his history (s) of slavery from his place of enunciation. The constructions analyzed, historical novels written by women whose protagonists are black, were chosen for their ability of regional representation in the Americas: La isla bajo el mar, by Isabel Allende (2009, Caribbean), Las esclavas del rincón, by Susana Cabrera (2001, platinum region) and Jonatás y Manuela, by Luz Argentina Chiriboga (1994, Andean Pacific). THE reflection uses the theory of Gérard Bouchard (2009) on the construction of a long memory for communities American women who have a recent history and proposes that, when retracing the trajectory of the black woman who builds his memory from the tracks, acts in the emergence of brands, of Afro-descendant cultural traces, thus filling the voids in official history. Their performance as cultural mediators will result in a cross-cultural literary production responsible for the resignification of the stories of slavery.