Horror, memoria y narrativa: elaboración de la memoria del horror de mujeres víctimas de crímenes de estado a partir de sus composiciones narrativas

Abstract

The following research report arises from a work process developed in the National Movement of Victims of State Crimes. The interest about the experience of horror of those women victims who suffer the violence acts, has led these research that has this document as a product. There are three big variables for the collection and analysis of data: horror, memory and narrative. The reader will find that the approachment of these variables is done through the methodology of narrative research, so it is expected that the reading could be pleasant and that the epistemological, descriptive and narrative experiences could get integrated. Here it is retakes the category of horror as a pillar of comprehension of the reality at the armed conflict and the elaborations of memory that the victims of crimes of State perform. This production constitutes a turn in the ways of approaching the studies of memory and conflict, placing the voice of the victims in the center of the reflection.