Irruptions of Memory

Expressive Politics in Chile's Transition to Democracy

Bibliographic Data

ID3218935
AuthorsAlexander Wilde (0000-0003-1583-3833, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume31
Issue2
Pages473-500
Publication date1999-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x99005349
OpenAlexW2072453671
LanguageEN
Citations received68

Even before Augusto Pinochet was arrested in London in October 1998, the past hung heavily over Chile's distinctive transition to democracy. This was apparent during the previous year in the attention given to its conflictive recent history in television and radio talk shows and in newspaper and magazine articles. Since the return to elected rule in 1990, volumes on the dictatorship and the Popular Unity government were staples in Santiago bookstores. With the approach of the 25th anniversary of the 1973 military coup, what had been a steady stream of publication turned into a torrent of personal and political memoirs, extended essays, political journalism, and scholarly studies evoking the country's divided historical memory

Democracy · Dictatorship · Government (linguistics) · Journalism · Linguistics · Media studies · Memoir · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America · History · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Philosophy · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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