Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory) - Hardcover

Nelson, Alice A.

9780838755037: Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature (The Bucknell Studies in Latin American Literature and Theory)

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ISBN 10: 0838755038 ISBN 13: 9780838755037

Publisher: UNKNO, 2002

Political Bodies is one of the first studies to link recent developments in Latin American literature to the rise of new social movements in the late 1970s and 1980s. Focusing on literary works in the context of the Chilean women's movement and resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship, Alice Nelson contends that the recent struggle for narrative power in Chile has been a contest about gender ideologies. Furthermore, she argues that this contest has been enacted literally and figuratively on the stage of human bodies as sites of domination and resistance. Examining works by Pia Barros, David Benavente and the Taller de Investigacion Teatral, Ariel Dorfman, Diamela Eltit, and Isabel Allende, Political Bodies engages emergent feminist critiques of authoritarianism in terms of gender and class, history and language. Nelson persuasively argues that the cultural forms of resistance produced under Pinochet anticipated both the achievements and the shortcomings of Chile's democratic transition, from the late 1980s through the present Concertacion.

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Alice A. Nelson teaches Latin American cultural studies and Spanish language at The Evergreen State College.

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