The memory that brings back the autochthonous past: history as a literary monstrosity

• Dina Ortega-Seijas Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador Maracay, Venezuela https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3525-6132

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7487575

Keywords: Literature, memory, identity, peoples

Abstract

This article had as its main purpose evaluate the importance of fictional literature for the reconstruction of the historical and cultural features of the towns. In terms of theorythe study was based on the theory managed by Bergson (2006) Memory and Matter, as well as the theoretical elements proposed by Ricoeur (1999) The reading of the past time, Tzvetan Todorov (2000) Memory abuse,Hayden White with The Fiction of Narrative and Theory and The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation and Hans-Georg Gadamer (2012)Truth and method The theory. It was concluded that literature is a space to narrate and recover indigenous history.

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