THE TIME OF TRANSMISSION IN A CHAVE DE CASA, BY TATIANA SALEM LEVY AND A RESISTÊNCIA, BY JULIÁN FUKS

POSTMEMORY, SECOND GENERATIONS AND INHERITANCE

Abstract

More than fifty years after the coups d'état in Latin America, there is a "generational turn", in Leonor Arfuch's terms, in contemporary production. Through a "second generation" writing, authors born after the historical period, heirs of the traumas of other(s), reopen the historical and familiar past in literature. This is the case in the novels by Tatiana Salem Levy, A chave de casa, and Julián Fuks, A resistência, in which authors who are sons and daughters of those persecuted during the military regimes take the word about this past. This article will seek to discuss how literature deals with this temporal displacement, observing especially how the trauma of dictatorial violence continues to produce subjective and social effects in the following generations and how it manifests itself literarily. It will also look at trauma theory and the transmission of traumatic events to subsequent generations.