2019
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Sophie Large, « De violencias y traumas: las mujeres en la posguerra en "Roza, tumba, quema" de Claudia Hernández », HAL-SHS : études de genres, ID : 10670/1.4lj983
This article intends to analyze the specificities of women’s experiences in the Salvadoran war and postwar in Claudia Hernández’s novel Roza tumba quema (2017). The author focuses on narrative and discursive strategies whereby, in spite of an apparently simple style, the Salvadoran writer shows the complexity of the women’s situation during the war and after it, the difficulties of the female guerrillas reintegrating society and the impact that war violence has had on their descendants after the conflict, as they pass trauma on daughters and granddaughters in an unconscious and transgenerational way. The article further defines the strategies developed by women, especially peasant women, in order to survive and overcome violence, by emphasizing the narrative structure, its symbolism and the metaphorical and archetypal nature of a female lineage whose particular story could represent all the women affected directly or not by the violence of war.