Archivo, memoria y ficción en Nadie me verá llorar de Cristina Rivera Garza

Abstract

The structure of Cristina Rivera Garza’s novel Nadie me verá llorar is organized with real documents taken from some patients’ clinical stories at the mental hospital, La Castañeda, which was opened in 1910 to celebrate the Mexican Independence centenary. This paper explores the way in which the concepts of memory and archive are put in play to create a relationship between the historical and fictional discourses. The intersection of both discourses and its function in the level of the narrative construction and sense, bring, in the end, aparticular idea of history as discipline and the question of its truth as an official discourse by the authority in power.