1st Edition
Literature and Society in the Chilean Post-Transition The Politics of Diamela Eltit’s Narrative Form
Introduction: Towards a Post-Transition Reading of Diamela Eltit’s Recent Narrative Fiction
Mapping Diamela Eltit’s Narrative Fiction and Critical Reception
Sociopolitical, Formal, and Gendered Dimensions of Eltit’s Literature
1. A Failed Link Between Chilean Workers’ Subversive Past and Submissive Present in Diamela Eltit’s Mano de obra
Enumeration and Repetition in a Neoliberal Labour System
Parentheses in the Portrayal of the Labour Force
Prensa Obrera Titles: The Link Between Past and Present
Conclusion
2. Female Domestic Labour in Mano de obra’s Contemporary Forms of Community Relations
Narrator’s Reliability in the Depiction of a Woman’s Involvement in the Labour Force
Abuse and the Place of Women in a Contemporary Labour System
The Place of Female Solidarity in a Neoliberal Labour Setting
The nosotros Narrator
Conclusion
3. Oppression and Resistance Through Narrative Form: La población in Fuerzas especiales
The Play Between Sameness and Difference
Linguistic Register: Repression and Resistance
The Blurring of Individuality and Liberty
Reference to Armament: Oppression and Resistance
Sections Fully Enclosed by Weapons
Sections Without References to Weapons at the Beginning and End
Conclusion
4. Narrating Uprising: Historical Echoes and the Politics of Form in Sumar
The Weight of Political History in the Narrative of Sumar
From Memory to Mobilization: Shifting Forms of Political Engagement
Conclusion
5. Insurgent Form: Literature, Memory, and Resistance in Falla humana
Voices That Withstand Erasure: Literature as the Pulse of Resistance
Between Ruins and Renewal: The Past and Present of Resistance
Conclusion
Conclusion
Index
Biography
Denisse Lazo is a Chilean-born and -raised lecturer in Hispanic studies at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. She has published extensively on the work of Chilean author Diamela Eltit, with special interest in how her technical choices contribute to the positioning of a political discourse in a context of resistance against neoliberalism.
