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If war is primarily the territory of the androcentric, the traumatic experience of war and its representation by the feminine eye insert themselves in a peripheral margin, a border of dislocation of the traumatic experience itself. From this point of view, the feminine becomes a “witnessing eye” par excellence, the surviving, residual possibility of the impossibility of fully bearing witness to the traumatic event. This dislocation reveals the non-coincidence between experience and image, characteristic of the testimony, in which feminine logos and memory become trenchant carriers of another logos, a counter-memory. The novels of Wanda Ramos and Lídia Jorge are also resituated in the tragic problematic of the testimonial aporia, showing how a critical reflection on the modern tragic enables a more inclusive view of a problematic literature – because of its struggle with history – such as that of the Colonial War.