Fronteras como zonas de contacto: violencia, memoria y olvido en dos novelas de Graham Swift
In Waterland (1983) the narrator, Crick, a History professor does not hesitate to state that "the teaching of history is the teaching of mistakes” (235) and, throughout the tale, he establishes the ambiguous and cross border between the state of being (water) which turns into another (land). Wa...
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Centro de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Lenguas (CIFAL), Facultad de Lenguas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Avenida Enrique Barros s/n, Ciudad Universitaria. Córdoba, Argentina. Correo electrónico: revistacylc@lenguas.unc.edu.ar
2021
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| Sumario: | In Waterland (1983) the narrator, Crick, a History professor does not hesitate to state that "the teaching of history is the teaching of mistakes” (235) and, throughout the tale, he establishes the ambiguous and cross border between the state of being (water) which turns into another (land). Waterland is a text fascinated by boundaries, elevations, borders, barriers, beginnings and ends. (Daniel Lea 73) In the novel published by Swift in 2011 (Wish You Were Here) the same idea of border as a contact zone between hatred and love, life and death, peace and violence, memory and forgetfulness appears again. It is a region in which lives transfigured by domestic and state violence converge, meet, become separated and try to reach a place where the opposites (memory/ forgetfulness, violence/ non-violence) can come into dialogue and arrive at borderland regions, at the “waterland” which is the only space, even if it is precarious, of salvation when faced to the sinking that surrounds the characters. |
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