Chilean Dictatorship Novel

Helene Carol Weldt-Basson is a professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of North Dakota. She is the author or editor of seven additional books including Masquerade and Social Justice in Contemporary Latin American Fiction (UNM Press).

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Introduction: History, Memory, Postmemory, and EmpathyChapter 2. Sins of the Fathers: Abandonment and Loss in Nona Fernández’s Novels Mapocho and Fuenzalida and Álvaro Bisama’s El brujoChapter 3. Expressions of Despair: Romance Plots and Affective Landscapes in José Donoso’s La desesperanza, Carlos Franz’s Santiago Cero, Álvaro Bisama’s Estrellas muertas, and Germán Marín’s El palacio de la risaChapter 4. Melancholic Allegories in Ariel Dorfman’s La última canción de Manuel Sendero and Diamela Eltit’s Jamás el fuego nuncaChapter 5. Betrayal and Abjection in Luce Arce’s El infierno, Arturo Fontaine’s La vida doble, and Carlos Franz’s El desierto and Almuerzo de vampirosChapter 6. Affect and Empathy in Nona Fernández’s La dimensión desconocida, Alia Trabucco Zerán’s La resta, and Fátima Sime’s Carne de perraChapter 7. Conclusion: The Chilean Dictatorship Novel in ContextNotesWorks CitedIndex

“This book is a necessary read for all interested in the dictatorship novel, the Latin American novel, literature and memory, and the emergent field of the study of emotions in Latin America.” - Jorge Carlos Guerrero, author of La literatura en las cartografías regionales del Cono Sur“An ambitious project that gives us an insight into contemporary Chilean dictatorship novels and convincingly argues how literature can increase our awareness and promote change through affect and emotion.” - Patricia Varas, author of Narrativa y cultura nacional