La Cofradía Cimarrona. El Cantante Cimarrón by Delia Mc Donald: The Art of Spinning the Memory

Abstract

The memory as an element of struggle and positioning of subjects with no history in the unpublished work La cofradía cimarrona. El cantante cimarrón of Delia Mc Donald W. opens a literary-critical debate from the trends of "a new Latin American historical novel" and from the "novel of memory". The prevailing view that life, like art related, is a process of embroidery with Abanitzá, as quilt, with the traditional technique of quilting. It is an endless count from the incessant dialogism of the characters, who are non-objective elements, but rather meaningless relationships become their little stories.
MM Bakhtin rediscovers that dialogic relations laden mnemonics and intertextuality can address the universe of the memory of slaves in colonial society of Veraguas in the 16th century, who uses voices pretend to fight against forgetting. Those voices, as dialogical complexity, constitute a multiplicity of times and spaces valued from the bajtiana enunciation, turning the novel in a series of tissues extremely heterogeneous.