Memory and trauma in the short narrative of Cristina Peri Rossi

Abstract

In the present article, the allegoric relationship maintained by the museum and the city with the historical past, specially as a discourse permitting not only to decipher but also to liberate a traumatic experience, either personal or collective, is studied through two tales by Cristina Peri Rossi. The way in which Peri Rossi's writings construct a memory and trauma language (and finally, how her writing constitutes a testimony allowing access to a traumatic past already closed by silence) is examined by means of a psychoanalitical and sociological approximation.