A History of Chilean Literature

This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present.

Ignacio López-Calvo (Edited by)

9781108487375, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 14 October 2021

400 pages
23.6 x 15.7 x 4.3 cm, 1.08 kg

'… A History of Chilean Literature is both titanic and courageous … [And it] stands as an indispensable critical point of reference for all researchers dedicated to the study of Chilean culture and literature.' Ignacio Pasten, Hispania

This book covers the full range and diversity of Chilean literature from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. By emphasizing transnational, hemispheric, and global approaches to Chilean literature, it reflects the relevance of themes such as neoliberalism, migration and exile, as well as subfields like ethnic studies, and gender and sexuality studies. It showcases the diversity of Chilean literature throughout all periods, regions, ethnocultural groups and social classes, all the while foregrounding its regional variations. Unlike previous literary histories, it maps a rich heterogeneity by including works by Chileans of indigenous, African, Jewish, Arab, Asian, and Croatian ancestries, as well as studies of literature by LGTBQ authors and Chilean Americans. Ambitious and authoritative, this book is essential reading for scholars of Chilean Literature, Latin American Literature, the Global South, and World Literature.

Introduction Ignacio López-Calvo
Part I: Proto-Chilean, Colonial Chronicles and Letters: 1. The Evolving Image of the Araucania and Its Conquistadors in Valdivia's Cartas de Relación and Vivar's Crónica y relación copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile María de Jesús Cordero
2. Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana and Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado in the National Imaginary Stefanie Massmann
3. Writing while Walking: Alonso Ovalle and Construction of the World's End Narrative in An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile (1646) Rafael Gaune Corradi
4. Empathy with the Mapuche: Rosales's Manifiesto apologético and Pineda y Bascuñán's Cautiverio feliz Andrés Ignacio Prieto Pastén
5. Subalterns Find their Voice: Testimonies by Black and Indigenous Women and Writings by Nuns during the Colonial Period Ximena Azúa Ríos
Part II: Nineteenth-Century Articulations of an Embryonic National Consciousness: 6. Rosario Orrego Castañeda (1831/34–1879) and Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century Carol Arcos
7. The Feuilleton Tradition: Popular Literature Aimed at the Urban Reader Marina Alvarado Cornejo
8. The Historical Novel: Independence, the War of the Pacific and 1891 Chilean Civil War Readings Eduardo Barraza
9. From the Public to the Private: Autobiographies, Collections of Letters, Memoirs, and Diaries as Intimate Descriptions of the Formation of the Republic Lorena Amaro Castro
10. Literature and Literary Markets Marina Alvarado Cornejo
11. Modernization and Culture María Rosa Olivera-Williams
Part III: Beyond Chileanness: Heterogeneity and Transculturation in Canonical and Peripheral Twentieth and Twenty-First-Century Literature: 12. Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Women Writers, and Intersectionality Claudia Cabello Hutt
13. The Verse as Being in the World: Chilean Poetry Before, During and After Pablo Neruda, History, and Politics Luis Correa-Díaz with Greg Dawes
14. Mapuche Poetry: Self-Definitions and Representation of the Chilean Cultures Magda Sepúlveda Eriz
15. The Translation Origins of Literary Mapuche Aesthetics Roberto Viereck Salinas
16. Theatrical Trends and Social Changes in Chile: 1910–2018 Juan Villegas
17. Jewish Voices, Chilean Literature Cristián Opazo and Marjorie Agosín
18. Chilean Arabic Writing: A Desire for Integration into Mainstream Society María Olga Samamé Barrera
19. Asian Chilean Writing and Film, and Chilean Orientalism María Montt Strabucchi
20. Croatian Chilean literature: Óscar Barrientos Bradasi?'s and Christian Formoso Bavich's Writing Eugenio Mimica Barassi
21. Chilean American Writing since September 11, 1973 Guillermo García-Corales
22. LGBTQ Writing and Cultural Consciousness in Chile Ignacio López-Vicuña
23. Permutations of Selfhood in the Work of José Donoso Mary Friedman
24. Isabel Allende, the Post-Boom, and Chilean Exile Literature Lila McDowell Carlsen
25. Roberto Bolaño, His Fiction of History, History of His Fiction Raúl Rodríguez Freire
26. Alejandro Zambra and Recent Chilean Narrative: From the Political to Autobiografiction Will Corral 27. Film and Literature in Chile: The Emergence of a Cultural Field Verónica Cortínez
28. Violence and Memory: Human Rights, Redemocratization, and Literary Culture in Chile Moisés Park
29. Chilean Digital Literature Melissa A. Fitch
30. Detectives at the End of the World: Approaches in Twentieth-century Chilean Literary Critique Alexis Candia.

Subject Areas: Hispanic & Latino studies [JFSL4], Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Literary theory [DSA]