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oapen-20.500.12657-863582024-01-04T02:13:18Z Diamela Eltit Lazzara, Michael J. Barrientos Olivares, Mónica Olivera-Williams, Rosa Lazzara, Michael J. Brix, Catherine M. Fischer, Carl Ramanathan, Sowmya communities; power; gender; body; dictatorship; non fiction; essays; contemporary literature; Chile bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DN Prose: non-fiction::DNF Literary essays bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies 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 cultivated a radical, insurrectional poetics aimed at questioning the very underpinnings of authoritarian power and discourse. While Eltit’s novels, published between 1983 and the present, provide a remarkable vision of Chile that has evolved over the past decades, she offers a different vantage point through her prolific and rigorous cultivation of literary essays. Translated for the first time into English, this collection of Eltit’s essays allows readers to delve into her key concerns as a writer and intellectual: the neoliberal marketplace; the marginalization of bodies in society; questions of gender and power; struggles for memory, truth, and justice after dictatorship; and the ever-complex relationships among politics, ethics, and aesthetics. 2024-01-02T12:37:34Z 2024-01-02T12:37:34Z 2023 book 9781951634339 9781951634353 9781951634360 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86358 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International diamela-eltit.pdf https://doi.org/10.25154/book11 Latin America Research Commons 10.25154/book11 10.25154/book11 7bb6503b-ca4e-418b-905d-205dc2692bbb 9781951634339 9781951634353 9781951634360 305 Pittsburgh open access
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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 cultivated a radical, insurrectional poetics aimed at questioning the very underpinnings of authoritarian power and discourse.
While Eltit’s novels, published between 1983 and the present, provide a remarkable vision of Chile that has evolved over the past decades, she offers a different vantage point through her prolific and rigorous cultivation of literary essays.
Translated for the first time into English, this collection of Eltit’s essays allows readers to delve into her key concerns as a writer and intellectual: the neoliberal marketplace; the marginalization of bodies in society; questions of gender and power; struggles for memory, truth, and justice after dictatorship; and the ever-complex relationships among politics, ethics, and aesthetics.
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