Antigones of the 21st century. Alternative narratives project in a university context

Abstract

This work presents part of the findings of a project carried out with first-year students at a private university in Bolivia. From an autobiographical narrative approach, personal stories (microstories) are recognized from voices that consider other writing possibilities. We worked from a hermeneutic methodology in the sense that understanding can be deeply linked to writing (language). The different collective activities generated in the classroom in consensus with the students are described and the students' perspectives concerning the project are presented. Students have a situated understanding of the stories told and recognize dominant narratives that promote sexist, classist, racist, and colonial traits in the social and family environment. Faced with this, it is intended, through situated writing, to face or transfigure these narratives by rewriting stories from a personal voice from which the doxa of the dominant structures is broken. An attempt was made to recover narratives taken from the breakdown of common sense, in a hermeneutic dimension, towards constructing one's writing that can recognize tradition structural forms in power relations on the path to the construction of authorship of every one of the students.