This thesis analyzes the intersections generated by the expanded field (Krauss, 1984) between Literature and History. Starting from four contemporary novels – two South African and two Brazilian –, the research examines the (de)construction and (re)construction of present temporalities in imaginative writings within the South-South axis of the Atlantic. In the works Por cima do mar (2018) by visual artist and writer Deborah Dornellas, and Água de barrela (2018) by journalist and writer Eliana Alves Cruz, I investigate the experience of the slave system in Monarchic Brazil (1822-1889) and its specters in the post-abolition period of Republican Brazil (1889-1959), fictionalized from the perspective of the human being confined to the condition of the Other. Political transition, the presentified future of post apartheid, and the shadows of the old regime are themes addressed here through the novels A House Gun (1998) by writer and political activist Nadine Gordimer, and Spilt Milk (2010) by writer and medical doctor Kopano Matlwa. In these four novels, remembrance in a spiral time (Martins, 2021) traverses different generations. Fabulation is the site of uncomfortable encounters between the specters of present-past time and the presences of futurepresent time.