Cultural Residues: Chile In Transition

Description

A complex portraial of postdictorial Chile by one of that country's most incisive cultural critics, this book uses memoirs, photographs, the plastic arts, novels, and other texts- the "residues" of a culture- to analyze the political-cultural Chilean landscape in the wake of Augusto Pinochet's seventeen-year military rule. Such residual areas reveal the flaws and lapses in Chile's transition from violent military dictatorship to electoral democracy.

Nelly Richard is Chair of the Program in Cultural Studies at the Universidad Arcis in Santiago, Chile, and a founding editor of Revista de Critica Cultural. Richard has published several works of criticism, including La insubordinacion de los signos and Masculino/Femenino. Alan West-Duran is assistant professor of modern languages, Northeastern University, editor-in-chief of the two-volume Latino and Latina Writers, and the translator of works by Alejo Carpentier and Cristina Garcia, among others. Theodore Quester is a professional translator based in Texas.