Escrita, memória e alteridade em Las genealogías, de Margo Glantz

Abstract

The article analyses the book Las genealogías, from Mexican writer Margo Glantz in the sphere of a research about contemporary travel narratives. The research has some questions as a starting point: how is memory constructed through writing? How is the memory of a generation constructed? How to write from the experience of others? The narratives in question are hybrid texts, that cross the boundaries of gender, placed between diary, fiction and essay, and open new spaces for memory. In the specific case of Las genealogías, I examine the ways of exploring the limits of family testimony, when the story narrated doesn’t belong entirely to the one that writes, observing the effort to construct a bond between generations and, most of all, to create a common ground between them.