Straniera a sé stessa : la genealogia femminile come spazio di autofigurazione nella narrativa di Marjorie Agosín

In Marjorie Agosín’s novel Sagrada memoria (1994) a new form of memorizing emerge. Abandoning the linearity of discourse, this form is a more synchronic and simultane- ous process, its aim is to regenerate the experience and to create a new way of transmission from one generation to the next. Through the rupture of the diachronical approach, the novel puts the image as a model of memory. The novel is composed by imaginative sequences cre- ated through a series of organizational devices. The methodological instruments of imagology and imaginary theories allow the study of the figure of the portrait as an example of alternative space of discourse.