Clémence Boulouque: a narrativa de filiação como escrita do trauma

The “affiliation narratives” are contemporary expressions of the autobiographical gender, so-called by the theorist Dominique Viart since the middle of the 1990’s. A great number of publications dealing with themes of affiliation, heritage and transmission took Viart to consider them as an involving phenomenon of the time. This article aims at reflecting on this autobiographical kind coming from the perspective of the inscription of the trauma. The corpus is composed by Mort d’un silence (2003), a narrative which brings the French writer Clemence Boulouque’s evocation of her father’s tragical death. --- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/matraga.2017.30222