Preface by Marjorie Agosín
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Three Decades
After the “Other” 9/11
Part I USA / Chilean Relations
Empire, Intervention and Historical Memory
1 Finding the Pinochet File: Pursuing Truth,
Justice, and Historical Memory through Declassified US Documents
Peter Kornbluh
2 Chile and the United States Thirty Years Later:
Return of the Repressed?
Steven S. Volk
3 Small Earthquakes and Major Eruptions: Anglo-Chilean
Cultural Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth
Centuries
Kevin Foster
Part II Legacies
Neoliberal Reconstructing of the Economy and Society
4 Integration without Real Participation: The
Chilean Labor Movement
Volker Frank
5 From Pinochet’s State Terrorism to the “Politics
of Participation”
Fernando Leiva
6 Sustainable Development or Sustained Conflict?
Logging Companies, Neoliberal Policies and Mapuche Communities
in Chile
Diane Haughney
7 Higher Education in Chile Thirty Years After
Salvador Allende: Privatization, Mass Education, Profits
and Exclusion
Patricia Tomic and Ricardo Trumper
Part III Challenges
Human Rights, Impunity and Democratization
8 Pinochet: A Study in Impunity
Mark Ensalaco
9 Alternative “Pasts” in Post-Pinochet Chile:
The Relation of History/Fiction and the Subjectification of
History
Ornella Lepri Mazzuca
10 Ephemeral Histories: Public Art as Political
Practice in Santiago, Chile, 1970–1973
Camilo Trumper
11 Remembering the Future: The Narrative Politics
of José Miguel Varas
Gregory J. Lobo
12 The Marginal on the Inside: Nannies and Maids
in Chilean Cultural Production (1982–2000)
Julia Carroll
Part IV Cultural Representations
Repression and Shifting Subjectivities
13 Exporting Chile: Film and Literature After
1973
Amy A. Oliver
14 Me moría: Aesthetics, Documentary and the
Creation of Nostalgia in Patricio Guzmán’s Chile, memoria
obstinada
Jeffrey R. Middents
15 Reception and Censorship of a Chilean Documentary:
The Plight of Fernando Is Back
Kristin Sorensen
16 Re/coiling Inscription: Incisive Moments
in Diamela Eltit and Jacques Derrida
Andrea Bachner
Epilogue: The Struggle for
Truth and Justice in Chile and the Challenges of Latin American
Democracy
Fabiola Letelier
Contributors
Index
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“This conference volume is unusual – and valuable – for
its primary focus on Chile after the end of the dictatorship and
the restoration of democracy in 1990. The authors in this anthology
generally share the Left’s critical gaze and offer a critique
of Chile’s much-lauded transition to democracy and neo-liberal
economic miracle, lending the book an ideological cohesion.” The
Americas Review
“Almost all contributions are concise,
well documented and well written, and together take stock of both
the state of affairs of Chile’s efforts to come to grips with
its dictatorial history, and of the many pending economic, political
and judicial injustices that yet need to be taken on … a timely,
well-documented collection that reminds us of the fact that to state
that ‘democracy has returned in Chile’ is, to say the
least, premature.” European Review of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies
“The date September 11th now most commonly refers to the 2001
Al Qaeda attacks on the United States, but for Chileans it carries
resonance as the day in 1973 of Pinochet’s coup against the
elected president, socialist Salvador Allende, and the beginning
of years of dictatorship. This collection of writings explores the
legacies of that fateful day as they were experienced in the immediate
aftermath through to today’s democratic era.” Reference
and Research
“The interdisciplinary nature
of the book enhances its ability to cover a range of topics and
incorporate a variety of approaches, thus deepening the scope of
questions asked (and answered) and subjects covered. The editors
have done a very good job of bringing together an assorted set of
chapters that they successfully weave together with helpful introductions…
Although each chapter stands on its own, combined they offer a powerful
answer to the question: What impact has the military coup that overthrew
the Popular Unity government of Salvador Allende had on Chilean
society, culture, and politics?” A Journal on Social History
and Literature in Latin America
“ Well researched and crafted interdisciplinary essays, and
a superb team edition and introductory words. This book not only
will take the readers to the indispensable understanding of the
reasons that make possible to parallel those two traumatic events
in the recent history of the Americas, but also and most importantly
it will speak thoroughly to their emotions, reminding them of the
continuing dual art of forgetfulness and forgiveness, a crucial
task of many successive generations seeking a healthy democracy.”
Luis Correa-Diaz, University of Georgia
“This volume gives an overall view of Chile today and it offers
the reader an instructive glimpse into what the future might hold
for this country.” Marjorie Agosín, Wellesley College
“In an important investigation of Chile after September
11, 1973, the authors and editors have effectively linked particular
events and trends in the recent Chilean past with patterns of globalization
in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This excellent
collection will be of most use to specialists but also may be rewarding
for graduate students interested in recent Chilean history and society.”
Hispanic American Historical Review
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