ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on two graphic narratives from the Hispanic world, Estamos todas bien by Ana Penyas and Notas al pie by Nacha Vollenweider. The chapter argues that graphic novels can serve as a documentary media that record the process of female intergenerational transfer of memory. Inspired by Cvetkovich’s concept of an archive of feelings and Hirsch and Spitzer’s discussion on points of memory, my gender-focused reading traces drawing reproductions of intimate conversations, personal objects, and photography that enable individual and collective recollection of history. The points of memory transform the family home into a space that holds a historical archive, where women serve as curators of memory. The chapter demonstrates the unique capacity of the comics medium to enable subjective documentation and bring attention to ordinary women and families as witnesses of national history.
