Autobiographical imagining things. Voices, time and mirrors in two feminine autobiographies

Abstract

This text analyzes two feminine autobiographies under a new gender reading vision. These are 

 La casa de los Conejos (The rabbit house) (Laura Alcoba) and  Sueño con menguante, Biografía de una “machi” Dream on the wane. A “machi” Biography. (Sonia Montecinos). The article pretends answering  the following questions: ¿Who tells the story: the one who lived  passed events or the one who remembers them? ¿Where exactly does he  speak from? ¿Under which conditions is the text generated, and what is expressed in this format and final content? ¿Which are the central biographical moments from which the passed imaginary relationship is reconstructed? ¿How is the narrative identity built, spread in split personality diversity between the writer, the narrator and the character presented? ¿What is the silence role in this identity construction? ¿Which is the “posteriori” meaning given to recreated experiences, which only have a meaning assumed by the author? ¿How is the autobiographical account filtered by subjectivity –the present one– and, fundamentally the imaginary relationship between the writer and his past?