Postmemory in the novel The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández
This master’s thesis analyses the representation of memory and postmemory in Nona Fernández’s novel The Twilight Zone (2016), a key work in contemporary Chilean literature for understanding how generations that grew up after the dictatorship reconstruct a past they did not experience but that still shapes their perception of their identity and the present. The research focuses on the narrative and literary strategies employed by the author –autofiction, intertextuality and the use of deictic elements– to convey collective and individual memory and to explore the tension between remembrance and silence. Special attention is given to the character of Andrés Valenzuela as a symbol of the moral ambiguity of the perpetrator in the context of reflecting on the concepts of guilt and silence. The novel contributes to the reflection on the role of literature in the reconstruction of memory, showing that fiction not only creates a space for dialogue between the past and the present but also allows the process of writing to help in the recovery and search for identity.
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