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Chapter 28 - Violence and Memory

Human Rights, Redemocratization, and Literary Culture in Chile

from Part III - Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2021

By
Moisés Park
Edited by
Ignacio López-Calvo
Ignacio López-Calvo
Affiliation:
University of California, Merced
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Summary

This chapter explores how civic activism blends with Chilean literature in order to address and overcome the dictatorial traumatic past, the residues of censorship culture, and divisiveness of a divided society since the authoritarian government (1973–1990). Writers address historical terror, furthering modes of remembering and representing that, in turn, demand for human rights. Thus, recalling the past becomes activism, surpassing attitudes of victimhood, vocalizing democratic demands, and engaging in political work through artistic production and creative collaboration.

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A History of Chilean Literature , pp. 591 - 611
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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