Abstract

GARCIA RIVERA, Edna Lucía. Recovering the memory of Yaqui women: a view of solidarity, collectivity and agency. Alteridades [online]. 2023, vol.33, n.65, pp.9-19.  Epub Nov 24, 2023. ISSN 2448-850X.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/alteridades/2023v33n65/garcia.

The objective of this paper is to analyze the recovery of the memory of two Yaqui women in conjunctural moments of their history and its correlation with their ancestors. In this sense, the work focuses on a study through memory from the perspective of Enzo Traverso where it is selected, made, and reinterpreted according to ethical dilemmas of the present and, at the same time, it has a high impact on their identity formation and the strength of their sense of belonging to a group. To understand their memories, about who remembers, from where, and for what purpose, we resort to the gaze that analyzes memory through postcolonial feminist studies, which allows us to reconstruct the multiple realities of indigenous women and “imagine other cartographies of possible resistances” (Suárez and Hernández, 2008); the methodological framework refers to oral history, where the memories of the interviewees are recovered. The findings allow us to glimpse that the ways in which they perceive solidarity, collectivity, and agency are connected to their ancestors understood as forgers of identity, transmission of their history, who maintain their group vision in their present, as well as a possible source of struggle and defense for the future.

Keywords : Yaqui women; postcolonial feminism; memory; deportation; resistance.

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