LITERATURE AND HISTORY: THE SENSITIVE OF DOMITILA CHUNGARA'S MEMORY BASED ON THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF EDUARDO GALEANO

Abstract

The present text consists in understanding how the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano builds up what we call historiographical criticism, articulating a diegetic composition in such way that it shows a demonstration of the women`s activism and the sensible of dictatorial memory based on the testimony of Domitila Chungara (1937- 2012). Therefore, we will conduct a structural and also a content analysis of the following narrative sequence: “1967 Llallagua, la fiesta de San Juan”; "1967 Catavi, the next day"; “1967 Catavi, Domitila” and “El interrogação de Domitila”, retrieved from the work Memória del fuego (2010, p. 233-234). In this analysis, we will see that Galeano, through the resources of Literary Theory, develops a new form of historiographical narratology, since he makes up its statement based on his perception about the historical event.