Remembering a Socialist Future in Postdictatorship Chile
Utopian Anticipation and Anti-utopian Critique in Jorge Baradit's Synco
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6012174 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel A Saldías (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 398-416 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Utopian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-991X • E-ISSN: 2154-9648 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/utopianstudies.29.3.0398 |
| OpenAlex | W2906509480 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The objective of the article is to describe and problematize the concept of socialist utopianism in the Chilean context of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through an analysis of Jorge Baradit's alternate history novel, Synco. Published in 2008 but chronologically situated in the 1980s, Baradit's novel imagines socialist Chile as a dystopia disguised as a technologically advanced eutopia. This brings into the foreground many utopian contents of the past socialist experience in the country that are eventually dismantled by the anti-utopian, anti-ideological postdictatorship perspective of the author, which constitutes both a critique and a testament of the weakened state of current political trust and militancy in the country
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Dystopia · Ideology · Literature · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Utopia · Visual arts · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Philosophy · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |