Genealogical tree and family album:two memory figures in Jewish immigrant narratives

Abstract

Memory is a central element in Jewish immigrant's literature, and the mold that shapes most of their narrations. This study establishes two ways in which memory is conceived in five texts of Jewish immigrants in Chile, described through the images of the genealogical tree and the family album. In the first case, the elements of memory are arranged according to a temporal axis; in the second case, the order looks for juxtaposition of their elements. This article describes and analyzes the possibilities of these two conceptions of memory.