Unique scenes of a shared childhood: the autobiographies of Victoria and Silvina Ocampo

  • Natalia Biancotto Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2015-1911

Keywords:

Silvina Ocampo, Victoria Ocampo, autobiography, Argentinian literature, XXth. century

Abstract

Two dissimilar strategies of construction of the self organize the autobiographical writings of Victoria and Silvina Ocampo; one pursues the reconstruction of memory, the other prefers the opacity of memory. On the one hand, the line of interpretation I develop from Inventions of the memory (2006) —the autobiography in verse of Silvina Ocampo, based on childhood memories— centers around the relation between memory writing, misremembering, and the problem of infancy (Agamben). On the other hand, my reading of El Archipiélago[The Archipelago] (Sur, 1979) —the first volume of Victoria Ocampo’s autobiography, corresponding her childhood— aims at showing the way in which the author relies on the possibility of clearly narrating the memory time, using the strategies of classical autobiography (Lejeune).

Keywords: Silvina Ocampo; Victoria Ocampo; autobiography; Argentinian literature; XXth. century

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Author Biography

Natalia Biancotto, Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Magister en Literatura Argentinapor la Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Becaria doctoral de CONICET. Cursa el Doctorado en Humanidades y Artes en la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, con un proyecto de investigación sobre el nonsense en la narrativa de Silvina Ocampo. Miembro del Centro de Estudios en Literatura Argentina de la misma universidad. Profesora Adscripta de la cátedra de Análisis del Texto en la Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Publicó capítulos de libros y artículos en revistas especializadas nacionales e internacionales.

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Published

2015-02-15

How to Cite

Biancotto, N. (2015). Unique scenes of a shared childhood: the autobiographies of Victoria and Silvina Ocampo. Anclajes , 19(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.19137/anclajes-2015-1911

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2015): enero-junio

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