Rethinking disappearance in Chilean post-coup narratives.
2011-05
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Rethinking disappearance in Chilean post-coup narratives.
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This dissertation explores Chilean narratives produced since the 1973 coup d'état (from the dictatorship and post-dictatorship periods) and analyzes representations of disappearance, which range from the institutionalized practice of enforced disappearance during the dictatorship, to the erasure of inconvenient histories and memories during the transition to democracy, and the persistent vanishing of marginal subjects in neoliberal democratic Chile. Focusing on the work of Ana Vásquez, Luz Arce, Ariel Dorfman, Roberto Bolaño, and Diamela Eltit, who present disappearance in numerous forms and in a variety of genres (novels, testimonio, drama, film, and texts that blur generic boundaries), I argue that, as one of many authoritarian continuities in democratic Chile, disappearance persists in the present. My study begins to articulate other manifestations of disappearance that extend beyond the notion of enforced disappearance as a phenomenon contained during the dictatorship period, and constitutes a space for rethinking disappearance in neoliberal democracies.
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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2011. Major: Hispanic and Luso Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics. Advisor:Dr. Ana Forcinito. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 262 pages.
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Howe, Alexis Lynn. (2011). Rethinking disappearance in Chilean post-coup narratives.. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/107914.
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