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Women, memory and dictatorship in recent Chilean fiction : Palabra de Mujer / Gustavo Carvajal.
Van Pelt Library PQ8007.W6 C37 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carvajal, Gustavo, author.
- Series:
- Iberian and Latin American studies
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Chilean fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Chilean fiction.
- Chilean fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Women in literature.
- Political violence in literature.
- Violence in literature.
- Collective memory in literature.
- Dictatorship in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 203 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Chiefly in English, with some passages in Spanish with English translation.
- Summary:
- This book discusses the representation of women's memories of the dictatorship in the recent work of seven Chilean novelists.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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 Jamas 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 Came 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 187-197) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781786838032
- 1786838036
- OCLC:
- 1272893227
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