Models of counter-hegemonic mothers. Analysis of maternity in the writing of Aparecida by Marta Dillon

Abstract

The thematic of motherhood has been addressed from multiples discourses in which ‘the woman’ (women) occupies central places, always destined to the private and familiar scope. The literary discourse is not excluded but it has been allowed to express models of unconventional mothers, those which exist in certain situations in which she cannot fulfill the role that has been implanted the centuries of patriarchy. During the 70’s in Argentina, most mothers – voluntarily or not- should leave ‘the nest’ in post of the revolutionary struggle and, being known the later tragic events, this maternity is truncated. The interrupted childhood and the shortage have derived in the writing of children who expect, from the literature, to tell this personal – and also collective- story. Marta Dillon joins her memories and life experiences with poetry in her story Aparecida (2015) to talk about that mother, to recover moments of her childhood that memory insists on preserving, as well as that body alive in front of a set of bones found long after.