Civil Obedience

Michael J. Lazzara is a professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies at the University of California, Davis. His several books include Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory and Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Civilian Complicity in Chile: A Pending DebateIntroduction: Complicity, Complacency, and the Ethics of Saying1. Fictions of Mastery: Mariana Callejas2. Specters of Jaime GuzmÁn: Pablo Longueira Montes, Sergio de Castro, Ignacio Santa Cruz3. Boundedness and Vulnerability: Hugo Zambelli4. Framing the Accomplice: Jorgelino Vergara5. Complacent Subjects: Max Marambio, Eugenio Tironi, Marco EnrÍquez-OminamiEpilogue: A Call to AccountNotesIndex

Original, engaging, and direly needed. Lazzara, one of the leading scholars writing on human rights, memory, and trauma in Chile and Argentina, looks at the many ethical positions civilians have latched onto to save face in the decades since the Pinochet dictatorship." - Greg Dawes, author of Verses Against the Darkness"Provocative, conceptually powerful, and fluidly expressed, Lazzara's book forces a reckoning with the active, ample ways Chileans violently transformed politics, the economy, and the social fabric to lasting effect and amid ongoing denial. The arguments and implications extend well beyond Chile to our own politics and societies." - Katherine Hite, author of Politics and the Art of Commemoration"Beyond the notable contributions of this book to the Chilean context, Civil Obedience also encourages readers to imagine vulnerable self-referential narratives as a stepping stone toward a more equitable, community-centered world. - A Contracorriente