The Chilean Dictatorship Novel: Memory, Postmemory, Affect, and Emotions

A survey of classic literature from Chile born of the repressive Pinochet dictatorship in the seventies.

Though the civil-rights abuses by the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile (1973–1990) were later recognized by reparations and truth commissions, the difficult emotions suffered by the victims and their families were often pushed into the background or out of the national conversation entirely. In response, novelists began writing the feelings experienced during the dictatorship into their boo...