Memory and Insubordination in the Narrative of Chilean Women in the 21st Century

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.