Literature, postmemory and blog. A new avenue for writings about the self and for a transatlantic perspective

SÁNCHEZ, MARIELA

New Trends in Cultur and Communication Studies

Peter Lang

Lugar: Berna; Año: 2018; p. 225 - 241

Literary genres linked to the expression of oneself have a possibility of great transformation thanks to the electronic media. The paradox between the expression of the intimate and the gesture of undressing in the network of networks becomes more complex and enriches a form of writing that already had its peculiarities, as the necessary construction of a representation. Even when it comes from oneself. Or precisely more mediated and more thought in the case of oneself.In a context in which globalization relates very strongly to the cultural memory of different societies, this text aims to analyze from post-memory concept and considering the line of transatlantic studies, how this is incorporated from an author who explores and updates its traumatic past.Daughter of kidnapped and missing parents by the last dictatorship in Argentina, Mariana Eva Perez bet to cross the starkest of the ferocity of state terrorism with an acid and penetrating humor.In the merger that the electronic support of the blog allows between a fiction from diary and an obvious display of self, is interesting reading which is made of the formerly called "Motherland", Spain. Both the blog, of frequent update, as the book to which gave place Diario de una Princesa Montonera 110 % Verdad offers a particular look on the otherness that lead to rethinking links, inheritances and, in short, a relocation of the image of Spain from an of their "homelands daughters".