Description
Over the last few decades, narratives on women’s experiences have been making steady ground. It has been increasingly recognized that the act of telling and narrating also has a gender aspect to it. These works have firmly established that there are other ways of remembering that would not necessarily support the official recollections of the past which have historically not accommodated this way of seeing. The structural and institutional role of testimonials provided by women adds a necessary dimension to our understanding of lived experiences of conflict situations. Since the memory boom after mid-1980s, the concept of memory has been widely studied and diversely classified by different theorists. Such has been this boom in recent scholarship that some critics have predicted its end.
The paper is an attempt to determined women’s perspective in looking principles narratives of history during civil war in Spain. The paper firstly deals with the historical dominance of male narrative of describing history and civil war throughout 20th century. Secondly it analysis how the role of women in these narratives been which was ignored took attention in literature. Thirdly the paper deals with the challenges that have been faced while bringing out the women’s perspective in narration of history in the late 20th century. Fourthly, two novels from two regions in Spain and India have been taken up for scrutiny. Lastly the paper takes case study of Carmen Laforet and Attiya Hossain in order to give a comparative outcome of the study.
