Abstract
This article explores the “family albums” drawn in the portuguese writer Maria Ondina Braga’s autobiographical work entitled Estátua de Sal (Statue of Salt). Based on the theories of Anne Muxel, Halbwachs and Candau, among others, our aim is to analyze, comparatively, the “albums” of the British families with whom the author lived as an au pair, and the representations of her own family. We will show how viewing the “other”, the foreign reality and the transmission of cultural memory is a tool to define identity within alterity.
Keywords
memory; family; identity; alterity; british