El Holocausto en tanto tropos universal para experiencias históricas traumáticas

Abstract

Andreas Huyssen highlights in his book En busca del futuro perdido. Cultura y memoria en tiempos de la globalización (2002) that the Holocaust as a universal
tropos of traumatic history has been travelling to other contexts which are not related to the historical Holocaust. Departing from Huyssen´s approach two novels will be analyzed in this article: Morirás lejos (1967) written by José Emilio Pacheco, and Zafer Şenocak´s Gefährliche Verwandtschaft (1998). The Mexican author explores the Holocaust during the Third Reich and the genocides perpetrated during the Spanish Conquest and Spanish. On his part, the autodiegetic narrator in the novel of the German author of Turkish origin deals with a family memory regarding the Holocaust and the genocide comitted against the Armenians during the Ottoman Empire. So both texts contribute to the construction of a transnational historical memory on war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by authoritan governments.