Vidas e historias de guerra: los proyectos biográficos de Aurora Cáceres y Soledad Acosta de Samper

This article analyzes two overlooked texts in the corpus of war narratives from Latin America, the by Colombian author Soledad Acosta de Samper and by Peruvian writer and activist Aurora Cáceres. Written by two women who were also the daughters of the men whose lives are narrated, these works offer extraordinary examples of how women dealt with war, war writing, and history as a discipline that traditionally disregarded female participation. The study focuses on the women's use of biography as a seemingly gender appropriate approach to history and war, the alternative representations of national heroes they offer when recounting the life of their fathers, and the discursive strategies female authors utilize in order to authorize themselves in the fields of history and war writing.