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Author:

Carvajal, Gustavo, author.

Title:

Women, memory and dictatorship in recent Chilean fiction : Palabra de Mujer / Gustavo Carvajal.

Publisher:

University of Wales Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xii, 203 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Chilean fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Chilean fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
Political violence in literature.
Violence in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Dictatorship in literature.

Notes:

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.

Series:

Iberian and Latin American studies

ISBN:

1786838036
9781786838032

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1272893227

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)