We Are All Chile, 9780826367884
Paperback
Chile’s history reimagined: Can stories inspire a more inclusive future?

We Are All Chile

Representations of Difference in Contemporary Chilean Historical Fiction

  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    29 April 2025

Summary

A study of the relationship between literature and the current conditions of national life, We Are All Chile explores how artistic expression reflects lived experience. The book travels through figures, symbols, and events in Chilean history from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as represented through historical fiction of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, an oeuvre that uses historical stories to reflect upon the challenges of Chilean society p…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780826367884
ISBN-10:0826367887
Author:Katherine Karr-Cornejo
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Imprint:University of New Mexico Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:29 April 2025
Weight:342g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Recommended…Karr-Cornejo examines Chilean historical fiction produced during the democratic transition after 1990, showing how these texts approach Chilean history through the lens of the post-dictatorship period…. Karr-Cornejo offers an engaging, clearly written overview of the historical periods and the fiction that reinscribes them for a post-dictatorship public, focusing on figures that reflect the complexities of race, gender, and class in the construction of the nation.”–A.A. Edwards “Choice”

About The Author

Katherine Karr-Cornejo

Katherine Karr-Cornejo is a professor of Spanish in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington.

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