CONCEALED HISTORIES: LETTERS AS CHANNELS OF SUSTENTATION OF FEMALE MEMORY AND INHERITANCE IN ISABEL ALLENDE’S THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v5.i4.2024.2714Keywords:
Preservation, Journals, Substantiate, Concealed, FemaleAbstract [English]
The prime focus of this essay is the use of letters for the preservation of female memory and its legacy in the novel by the female Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits. Journals and writeups play a crucial role in preserving the experiences and memories of female characters in the novel, providing a way to sustain and transfermemory across generations. Allende’s text uses such techniques of communication that are private and personal to substantiate the lives and experiences of women, aiding to guard and forward the emotional and cultural legacy of women in a patriarchal world.
References
Allende, Isabel. The House of the Spirits. Translated by Magda Bogin, Everyman’s Library, 2005.
Bombal, Marìa Luisa. The House of Mist. Translated by the Author, University of Texas Press, 1995.
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