The Possibility, at Least, of Fiction and Perjury in Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida

This article approaches Dulce Chacón’s novel La voz dormida in the frame of its influence in Spain’s politics of memory. It offers to expand the horizons of the numerous works carried out up to the date relying on Jacques Derrida’s theories and reasonings on the notion of testimony or witnessing, in...

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Main Author:	Stephen Graff
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2017-11-01
Series:	Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal
Subjects:	Dulce Chacón Jacques Derrida Novela Testimonio Posmemoria España
Online Access:	http://journals.iai.spk-berlin.de/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/2305

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The Possibility, at Least, of Fiction and Perjury in Dulce Chacón’s La voz dormida

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