Flight from Chile : An Oral History of Exile

Wright, Thomas/ Oñate, Rody/ Hodgson, Irene (TRN)

University of New Mexico Press（2023/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 264 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780826365484
• DDC分類 983.065

Full Description

2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet's coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next fifteen years some two hundred thousand Chileans sought exile in countries around the world. Out of their anguish and anger come these moving and powerful testimonies of their fractured lives--the first oral history of the Chilean diaspora, now revised and updated.

Many who fled had been tortured, and they clung to the principle that the dictatorship was an evil that had to be destroyed. But their zeal and solidarity with other refugees often failed to sustain families. Many marriages collapsed, and children lost interest in their native land and culture. After civilian rule returned in 1990, many returning exiles felt estranged from a homeland forever changed. This timely update of the 1998 collection continues to remind us of the fracturing legacy and enduring oppression of usurpation and authoritarian rule long after its time has passed.

Contents

Introduction
Translator's Introduction
Acknowledgments
Chapter One. The Diaspora in Context: Chilean Politics, 1970-1994
Chapter Two. Prelude to Exile: The Military Coup
Chapter Three. Paths to Exile
Chapter Four. Resistance and Exile
Chapter Five. The Diaspora: Exile on Four Continents
Chapter Six. The Diaspora: Exile in Western Europe
Chapter Seven. Political Life in Exile: Fighting the Dictatorship from Afar
Chapter Eight. Exilesʼ Return, 1978-1988: Struggle on Many Fronts
Chapter Nine. Return to a New Exile, 1988-1994
Selected Bibliography
List of Interviews
Index