diamela-eltit.pdf

• Other Authors: Lazzara, Michael J.
• Language: English
• Published: Latin America Research Commons 2024

Diamela Eltit’s literary work emerged on the Chilean cultural scene in the 1980s when the Pinochet regime (1973-1990) had consolidated its project of extermination, censorship, and neoliberal shock therapy. Forced to write in a suffocating atmosphere of restriction and violence, Eltit boldly cultiva...