A woman up in arms
the feminine conscience in Claudia Hernández’ novel Roza, tumba, quema
Keywords:
El Salvador, guerrilla, woman, postwar novelAbstract
This article explores the novel Roza, tumba, quema (2018) by the Salvadoran writer Claudia Hernández. The work tells the story of a mother and her five daughters during El Salvador’s war and post-war period. The article studies the relationships between free indirect discourse and the formation of the conscience of a former combatant and mother of family, how she sees herself and the world. I argue that in this Hernández’s text, fiction enables a historical imaginary of the guerrilla subject, which is different from the one that had been presented to us in the testimonial genre.
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