Diamela Eltit by Diamela Eltit

Diamela Eltit 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 novels, published between 1983 and the present, provide a remarkable vision of Chile that has evolved over the past decades, she offers a different vantage point through her prolific and rigorous cultivation of literary essays.

Translated for the first time into English, this collection of Eltit's essays allows readers to delve into her key concerns as a writer and intellectual: the neoliberal marketplace; the marginalization of bodies in society; questions of gender and power; struggles for memory, truth, and justice after dictatorship; and the ever-complex relationships among politics, ethics, and aesthetics.

Diamela Eltit is a Chilean writer and artist. She began producing works during the Pinochet dictatorship, staging actions as part of the artist collective CADA and publishing her first novels, Lumpü¾Ž–”¼rica and El Cuarto Mundo. She has received many literary prizes, including Chile's National Prize for Literature in 2018. She is a Distinguished Global Professor of Creative Writing in Spanish at New York University.

Helen Lane (1917-2004) was a translator who worked primarily with French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish literature. Ronald Christ is the cofounder of Lumen Books and SITE magazine and Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University.

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ISBN 13	9781951634339
ISBN 10	1951634330
Title	Diamela Eltit
Author	Diamela Eltit
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ubiquity Press (Latin America Research Commons)
Year published	2023-12-14
Number of pages	304
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