What will remain...? Some responses from autoethnography and young people’s fiction

Abstract

I keep thinking lately that I am writing for the next generation, for those like my granddaughter who have come into the world during this time of the pandemic, with all its anxiety and insecurity. Vulnerability, I imagine, will be for her a normal part of life that no longer knows how to define its normality. Thinking about these issues, I will try to give some answers about the legacies we are leaving behind and how autoethnography and young people’s fiction propose ways of looking for the confluence between the past, the present, and the future. Among what will remain, I hope to show the importance of the moments of connection that we achieve in anthropological encounters, as well as artistic creation, moments that allow us to feel that we share a human heritage that belongs equally to all of us because we exist in the world.