Dulce patria, a Collection of Poems About the Chilean Dictatorship

2022 ◽  
pp. 253-265
Author(s):  
Horacio Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Chilean Dictatorship

scholarly journals Un viaje por el infierno, de Alberto Gamboa: escritura testimonial e imaginario de la reconciliación

2015 ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Jaume Peris Blanes
Keyword(s):  
Chilean Dictatorship ◽  
First Time ◽  
National Reconciliation

ResumenEl artículo analiza el testimonio Un viaje por el infierno, de Alberto Gamboa,que articuló el imaginario periodístico del que provenía su autor y la escrituratestimonial que había sido de gran importancia en el exilio, pero que había carecido de espacios de expresión en el Chile de la dictadura. El autor analiza el modo en que el testimonio de Gamboa puso en contacto por primera vez las características enunciativas de las escrituras testimoniales con el imaginario de la reconciliación nacional.Palabras clave: Testimonio, dictadura chilena, reconciliación nacional, libro reportaje Un viaje por el infierno by Alberto Gamboa: testimonial writing and imaginary of the ReconciliationAbstractThe author focuses on the testimony Un viaje por el infierno, written by the survivor Alberto Gamboa, which articulated the imaginary of journalism basedon his testimonial writing. Moreover, it relates, for the first time, to the mainfeatures of testimonies to the imaginary of national reconciliation.Key words: Testimony, Chilean dictatorship, national reconciliation, journalism El trabajo se enmarca en una investigación postdoctoral más amplia en torno a los discursossobre la represión y los imaginarios de la memoria en el Cono Sur latinoamericano

scholarly journals Archiveras anarquistas: Corporal Testimony in the Work of Diamela Eltit

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Megan Corbin
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
The Body ◽  
Diamela Eltit ◽  
Truth Telling ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Chilean Dictatorship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Historical Model

Abstract: There exists a constant within the trajectory of Diamela Eltit’s contributions to New Chilean Fiction: the turn to the body’s revelatory capacity as a corporal archive of human existence. Simultaneously exploring and rejecting the confines of the traditional testimonial reliance on language, Eltit moves the reader to a re-consideration of the truth-telling function of the biological materiality of the body, placing imperfect corporalities on display as a means of speaking, even where the voice itself may falter.  This essay locates Eltit’s move to the corporal within the trajectory of feminist criticism, the traumatic realities of the Chilean dictatorship and post-dictatorship periods, and the search for the recuperation of those bodily knowledges represented by the disappeared.  Next, it turns to Eltit’s Impuesto a la carne as her most recent re-visioning of the importance of corporal textualities, whether or not the subject-matter of the body’s denunciation is connected to the dictatorship.  Lastly, this essay reconsiders the rejective power of the traditional archive, analyzing the effect set models have on those who seek to tell their stories outside of the traditional testimonial model. I argue that the case of Diamela Eltit is an example of the way writers and producers of cultural texts which actively inscribe alternative memories of the past are resisting the authoritative power of the archive and subversively inscribing narrative memory onto bodily materialities, re-orienting the view of the corporal from an evidentiary showing to an active process of re-telling the past. Eltit’s novels, inscribed with her corporal textual model, give voice to survivors, articulating an alternate historical model for the archive, embracing the biological and making it speak against the rigid abuses of authoritarianism.

Tell me your story about the Chilean dictatorship: When doing memory is taking positions

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Cornejo ◽  
Carolina Rocha ◽  
Nicolás Villarroel ◽  
Enzo Cáceres ◽  
Anastassia Vivanco
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Chilean Dictatorship ◽  
The Right

The current memory struggles about the Chilean dictatorship makes it increasingly relevant to hear a diverse range of voices on the subject. One way of addressing this is to study autobiographical narratives, in which people construct a character to present themselves as the protagonists of a story by taking multiple positions regarding what is remembered. This article presents a study that analyzed the life stories of Chilean people (diverse in their generations, cities, experiences of political repression, political orientations and socio-economic levels) and that distinguished between the positions that they take when presenting themselves as the protagonists of an autobiographical story about the Chilean dictatorship. The results point to salient and recurrent positions that allow people to earn the right to be considered part of the social history of the dictatorship, that involve different definitions regarding those responsible and the victims of what happened, and that unveil a strong family and filial logic of remembering.

scholarly journals A Poetic of Beauty: Nature, Memory and Resilience in El Botón de Nacar/The Pearl Button (2015)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
pp. 143-163
Author(s):  
María Del Pilar Melgarejo
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Film Proposal ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
Chilean Dictatorship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

One of the pillars of the history of Latin American documentary filmmaking is undoubtedly the Chilean director Patricio Guzmán. During more than five decades of film production, he has given an account of Chile's political history, specifically dealing with the meaning of the Chilean dictatorship for the country's past, present and future, as well as its relevance in the Latin American context. His films undoubtedly represent one of the most relevant testimonies to the continent's history in the 20th century, with hundreds of hours of footage of the high points in the violent transition process between the Allende and Pinochet governments. His film proposal will take a radical turn in his last two productions: Nostalgia de la Luz ([2010] 2011) and El Botón de Nácar (2015), which are part of a trilogy - the latter film is currently in production. Its aesthetic proposal is revolutionary in the sense that it resignifies the relationship between memory and history by establishing a connection between nature, cosmology and historical memory. In this trilogy he deals separately in each film with the desert, the sea and the mountain, leading the viewer to a reflection that, through poetic language and a meditative tone, proposes a new look at history and memory. In this essay I analyze three elements that define his film El Botón de Nacar and that open the possibilities for a new type of theoretical reflection on the documentary genre: the relationship between nature, narration and history, history understood as genealogical memory and the new type of visual aesthetic that the director is proposing, which I call "poetry of beauty". 

Im geschützten Raum

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-361
Author(s):  
Daniela Fugellie Koch
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
Cultural Activities ◽  
Democratic Ideals ◽  
Chilean Dictatorship

This article explores the musical events organized by the Goethe Institute during the Chilean dictatorship (1973–1990). An examination of the cultural and political discussions around these musical programmes demonstrates that the function of music as a tool for promoting democracy was understood in the context of the cultural activities of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chile. I explore the ways in which projects from the fields of jazz and contemporary music were understood as vehicles of democratic ideals, the consequences of the resulting musical transfers for the local musical life, as well as the shaping of a particular image of West Germany in Chile. (Vorlage)

Andrés Wood’s Machuca and Violeta Went to Heaven

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Vilches
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Class Conflict ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Chilean Dictatorship ◽  
At Home

A suppressed collective memory of the 1960s and early 1970s is now emergent among all Chileans, at home and abroad, including those who once wished to forget or to deny the violence, division, and injustice of the Chilean dictatorship. The treatment of class conflict and social division in two films directed by Andrés Wood— Machuca and Violeta Went to Heaven—has contributed to this awakening, pointing out that cultural experiences and economic destiny in Chile have been determined by divided geographical spaces. La memoria colectiva de los años 60 y principios de los 70 en Chile, que había estado suprimida hasta ahora, está surgiendo entre todos los chilenos, dentro y fuera del país, incluso entre aquellos que una vez desearon olvidar o negar la violencia, las divisiones y las injusticias de la dictadura chilena. El tratamiento de los conflictos de clase y las divisiones sociales en dos películas dirigidas por Andrés Wood— Machuca y Violeta se fue a los cielos—ha contribuido a este despertar, al señalar que las experiencias culturales y el destino económico de Chile han sido determinados por unos espacios geográficos divididos.

scholarly journals Girl Protagonists of Chilean Dictatorship Novels for the Young

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-38
Author(s):  
Bernardita Munoz-Chereau
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Young Audiences ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Chilean Dictatorship

Narratives for children about Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile (1973–89) written by the sons and daughters of that era constitute a recognised genre. For the most part the genre features boy characters who not only have voice and choice, but also unrealistically win the fight against the oppressors. This paper examines two of the rare works with girl protagonists, paying attention to how their voices are constructed: Mariana Osorio Gumá's Tal vez vuelvan los pájaros [Maybe the birds will return] (Mexico, 2013) and Matilde by Carola Martínez Arroyo (Argentina, 2016). I apply Deleuze's theories about the gaze to girls to identify patterns that afford the construction of ‘lucid’ protagonists in terms of recurring modes of language production (silence, ordered discourse, invention), giving rise to inquisitive girls. Through the construction of a girl's lucid gaze, which can withstand and narrate the horrors of the dictatorship, these novels offer young audiences a powerful space for historic and collective memory.

scholarly journals Reconstrucción del proceso de elaboración de la Ley Orgánica Constitucional de Enseñanza: actores, proyectos y disputas ideológicas. Chile, 1973–1990

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 179
Author(s):  
Camila Pérez Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Education ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
National Education System ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One ◽  
Chilean Dictatorship ◽  
Council Of State ◽  
The Military

The aim of this article is to analyze the main debates, projects and conflicts presented in the process of drafting the Constitutional Organic Law of Education (LOCE) during the period of the Chilean Dictatorship (1973-1990). In that period, the national education system was the subjected to structural transformation, as  market principles were introduced to schools and higher education institutions in response to decisions made by various civilian and military players. This research reports an analysis of their proposals and lines of action, and how they were involved in the discussion framework in which the LOCE was drawn up. The research is based on an examination of the education-related records made during meetings of the Military Junta, the Commission for the Study of the New Political Constitution of the Republic of Chile, the Council of State, the Commission for the Study of Constitutional Organic Laws, and the Commissions for the Constitutional Organic Law on Education. The sources analyzed show that in the process of drafting the normative framework of the Chilean educational system that was to remain in force until 2009, two conflicting political ideologies were at play: on the one hand, the maintenance of a discourse of «Minimum Teaching State» (defended by traditional politicians and members of the Armed Forces) and, on the other hand, the neoliberal project.

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