기억의 정치학과 정동(情動) -에스테르 투스케츠의 『우리는 전쟁에서 승리했었다』

Abstract

Esther Tusquets’ autobiography, Habíamos ganado la guerra was published in 2007, the year that the Law of Historical Memory was passed by the Spanish Congress. Claiming that the vanquished’ perspective on the Civil War and early Francoist period has attracted great attention in memoirs and fiction, Tusquets calls for more reflective writings from the victors’ perspective. Tusquets was born into the an upper-class bourgeois family that was affiliated with the Francoist band, however she had more in common with the vanquished. This study examines the aspects of trauma representation based on the politics of memory and affect in Tusquets’ Habíamos ganado la guerra. As a way of overcoming the limitations of Post-structuralist trauma criticism, this study analyzes the subjective, eccentric experiences and trauma of everyday life based on affect theory. Through the transition of affect that is transferred in the mother-daughter relationship, it is demonstrated that Franco’s patriarchal system of violence penetrates into women’s daily life at a microscopic level. Fear and shame transferred in the mother-daughter relationship are presented not as the emotional and psychological state but as an affect that crosses the mother’s body and is transmitted to the daughter’s body. Tusquets’ trauma narrative presents the ethic of empathy and consideration based on the potential of the resonance of affect.