Reconstrucción de la memoria en “Space Invaders” y “La dimensión desconocida” de Nona Fernández

The purpose of this work is to analyze the recurring themes in the novels Space Invaders (2013) and La dimension desconocida/ The Twilight Zone (2016) by the Chilean author Nona Fernández (1971) such as: the children’s’ voices, the recalling of memory amongst generations, the household, the use of games to narrate, the desire to escape and the testimony, with the purpose of showing how these themes build the autofiction in the author’s discourse and the reconstruction of individual memories as a matter if resistance towards the official memory after the dictatorship in Chile. Furthermore, these memories become representations of the collective memory in the literature of the son’s generation that allows to learn about contemporary Chile. Keywords: Nona Fernández, Chilean literature, dictatorship, memory, autofiction

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Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja)
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2025-01-01
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Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America
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Reconstrucción de la memoria en “Space Invaders” y “La dimensión desconocida” de Nona Fernández

Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja)
Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America
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Reconstrucción de la memoria en “Space Invaders” y “La dimensión desconocida” de Nona Fernández

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The purpose of this work is to analyze the recurring themes in the novels Space Invaders (2013) and La dimension desconocida/ The Twilight Zone (2016) by the Chilean author Nona Fernández (1971) such as: the children’s’ voices, the recalling of memory amongst generations, the household, the use of games to narrate, the desire to escape and the testimony, with the purpose of showing how these themes build the autofiction in the author’s discourse and the reconstruction of individual memories as a matter if resistance towards the official memory after the dictatorship in Chile. Furthermore, these memories become representations of the collective memory in the literature of the son’s generation that allows to learn about contemporary Chile. Keywords: Nona Fernández, Chilean literature, dictatorship, memory, autofiction

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