Representações da Alteridade: Contornos Históricos e Escrita do Eu em La Razón de Mi Vida.

Abstract

This essay s main purpose was to make a study about the book La razón de mi vida (1951) of Eva Perón (The reason of my life), whose authorship or ghostwriter, was attributed to Manuel Penella da Silva, a Spanish writer that according to scholars about the myth of Eva following the example of the sociologist Horacio González (2009). The book that was published in Argentina is an autobiography that ratifies an image of a woman that became an icon of the Peronism of an almost messianic vision within the Latin context. The representation of Eva Perón also evokes some consideration of gender, in other words, it reveals the conscience of a woman that broke behavior patterns of an era, even managing to become the leader of a political movement. The political movement in question took place in Argentina in the 40 s when the country was under the command of the military. Since her in in July 26th 1952, the story of Eva Perón or Evita has been written and rewritten by historians and novelists. Furthermore, many writers have offered themselves as witnesses in order to contribute to the writing of this story and also contributing to this living myth and also to the recreation of its image, always in constant dialogue with its biography. La razón de mi vida has allowed Eva Perón to be part of the discursive context of her auto representation as a Political woman. In this essay, the book is studied as an autobiographical work and all the historical relationships are investigated as well as the literary and ideological aspects that such genre could establish, through some scholars such as Lejeune (1975), May (1979), Pouillon (1974), Bakhtin (2000), Rodrigues (2007) and others. It is of high interest to analyze how the written of the self is manifested and is shown within the book through a structure which is made of everyday life reports that end up revealing the present as well as the past in a individually and collectively way.