8 articles in this issue
Ileana Rodríguez,Fernando A. Blanco
Introduction
Juan Esteban Plaza Parrochia
This research addresses the mechanisms of censorship of the Holy Office in the narrative and historical works of Pablo de Olavide and in José Toribio Medina’s Historia del Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición en Chile. The essay is divided into two... see more
Pablo Concha Ferreccio
This essay approaches the symbolic violence in Carlos Droguett´s novel Eloy (1960), opening with an analysis of the link between Eloy and women in order to present perversion as a psychic structure. The essay then addresses symbolic violence with referenc... see more
Rodrigo Fernando del Río
In her book A Queer Mother for the Nation, Licia Fiol-Matta explains the relationship between Gabriela Mistral’s queer identity and its appropriation by the multiple state projects of her era. She argues that the political discourse of maternity in the po... see more
Nicole Inostroza
The treatment of gaze in Donoso’s writing establishes it as the principal method of communication in a space where the use of a public language prohibits the expression of affects uncomfortable for the social order. When language is lacking, the outcast e... see more
Alejandro Rossi
The voice of the transvestite in the selected chronicles of Lemebel narrates the changes taking place in a society in transition between the Unidad Popular and the dictatorship government led by Augusto Pinochet. The essay proposes how the context of this... see more
Damián Noguera
The main objective of the following essay is to analyze the dramatic play Historia de la sangre (1991) by Alfredo Castro, in the context of the lacanian approximation to the concept of perversion. According to many scholars, this dramatic play p... see more
Sonja Wolf
Book review of Héctor Tobar's "The Barbarian Nurseries"