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Author Carvajal, Gustavo, author.

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

Publication Info. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2021.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Iberian and Latin American studies
Iberian and Latin American studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 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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Subject Chilean fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chilean fiction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Chilean fiction -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 21st century
Subject Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Political violence in literature.
Political violence in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
Chronological Term 1900-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Carvajal, Gustavo. Women, Memory and Dictatorship in Recent Chilean Fiction. Cardiff : University of Wales Press, ©2021
ISBN 1786838052 (electronic book)
9781786838056 (electronic book)
9781786838049 (PDF ebook)
1786838044
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