Testimony, Memory and Archive in Cristina Rivera Garza

Abstract

Throughout her literary production, Cristina Rivera Garza has explored neighboring writing styles, where the hybridity of genres, narrative techniques, and themes transforms the literary text into a hybrid space. Here, fabulation (fiction), the anchoring of her work to reality through diverse voices offering testimony and collective memory, and various discursive registers that document her research converge, interweaving diverse sources that are incorporated into the text. This creates an archive integrating different versions of events, voices that emerge from both the public and private spheres. This work seeks to analyze the structural poetics, the testimony of pain, the geological writings, memory, and the archive of Rivera Garza's narrative production, particularly in El invencible verano de Liliana.