{"product_id":"diamela-eltit-diamela-eltit-9781951634339","title":"Diamela Eltit: Essays on Chilean Literature, Politics, and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiamela Eltit's literary work emerged on the Chilean cultural scene in the 1980s when the Pinochet regime (1973-1990) had consolidated its project of extermination, censorship, and neoliberal shock therapy. Forced to write in a suffocating atmosphere of restriction and violence, Eltit boldly cultivated a radical, insurrectional poetics aimed at questioning the very underpinnings of authoritarian power and discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Eltit's novels, published between 1983 and the present, provide a remarkable vision of Chile that has evolved over the past decades, she offers a different vantage point through her prolific and rigorous cultivation of literary essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated for the first time into English, this collection of Eltit's essays allows readers to delve into her key concerns as a writer and intellectual: the neoliberal marketplace; the marginalization of bodies in society; questions of gender and power; struggles for memory, truth, and justice after dictatorship; and the ever-complex relationships among politics, ethics, and aesthetics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diamela Eltit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1951634330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781951634339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ubiquity Press (Latin America Research Common\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d","brand":"Diamela Eltit","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44860328837375,"sku":"9781951634339","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b16a3807-d4e1-459b-b3bd-71c112000b4e.jpg?v=1709135839","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/diamela-eltit-diamela-eltit-9781951634339","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}