Metaphors of the Revolts in the Recent Chilean Narrative

Abstract

This article analyzes how the Chilean social
uprisings of recent years have been represented in a corpus of recent narrative from a theoretical and methodological perspective that attends to the intersections between literary practices and social discourses. In general terms, the corpus is made up of a set of novels that,from different aesthetic proposals, articulate a series of metaphors that allude to a generalized crisis of the predominant political and economic model and inscribe in the present the memory of the crimes committed by the military dictatorship: Avenida 10 de Julio (2022) by Nona Fernández, Sumar (2018) by Diamela Eltit, Satancumbia (2020) by Rodrigo Miranda and La orquesta imaginaria (2021) by Rodrigo Díaz Cortez. In accordance with what was previously indicated, the analysis focuses on the discursive operations through which reference is made to the violence exerted by the State and the role of artistic practices in repressive contexts