Includes bibliographic references (pages [187]-197) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Patriarchy and memory -- Remembering dictatorial Chile -- Women's memories in the public sphere -- Chilean fictions of the traumatic past -- 1. Violence and Women's Memories in El Desierto -- Rituals of violence and memory -- Understanding the traumatic past -- Victims and perpetrators -- 2. Militants, Wives and Mothers in Jamás el Fuego Nunca and Libreta de Familia -- The Chilean novel, the dictatorship and the left -- The gendered construction of militants and wives The gendered construction of a mother -- 3. Female Collaboration in Carne de Perra and La Vida Doble -- The Bachelet government -- Confessions and conversions -- Collaborators in democracy -- Telling stories -- 4. Daughters Rewriting Legacies in 'El lugar del otro' and Fuenzalida -- Inherited memories -- Family albums -- Daughters of the dictatorship -- Rewriting legacies -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography.
Summary:
This book discusses the representation of women's memories of the dictatorship in the recent work of seven Chilean novelists.
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