Maternidades contestadas en la narrativa de las escritoras Arantxa Urretabizkaia y Lourdes Oñederra

Résumé

This article deals with the analysis of discourses on motherhood presented by referential Basque language-novels, such as, Koaderno gorria (1998, The Red Notebook) by Arantxa Urretabizkaia and Eta emakumeari sugeak esan zion (1999, And the Serpent Said to the Woman) by Lourdes Oñederra. The aim is to reflect on the peculiarities that these discourses present and, in particular, on the objectives that the act of remembrance pursues in both novels. Memory is, therefore, the central element that allows both narrative universes to be conveyed, and allows for a questioning of the gender politics and roles that current society, and Basque society in particular, attributes to women.