Diamela Eltit: Essays on Chilean Literature, Politics, and Culture

by Diamela Eltit

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1951634330
• ISBN13: 9781951634339
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Ubiquity Press (Latin America Research Common
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"