In the wake of maternal narratives I collected a piece of history that my mother said about my name

Abstract

This article comes from a maternal narrative related to the forgery of my name, a story that emerges from the everyday life, but is on the verge of fiction. With this focus, I question the patrilineal normative that is constant in birth records and I recollect this individual story to connect it to broader social contexts. When writing from my personal memories, I follow the methodological approach of monads, used by Walter Benjamin in Childhood in Berlin around the 1900s (2000), a way that enables welcoming the fragmentary writing that reaches the present lead by the moist breath of the past. In this perspective, the artistic poetics found in photography the necessary language to dialogue with a writing that follows the noises of memories.