Subaltern confessions: subjectification, narrative and guilt in three Argentine and Chilean post-dictatorship novels

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Macarena Areco

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In this paper I try to elaborate a reflection about the regime of distribution of guilt and of exemption of responsibility in the post-dictatorship period, wwfrom the question about the subjects that confess in recent narrative works. To do this, I analyze three Argentine and Chilean novels –Ciencias morales (2007) by Martin Kohan, La vida doble (2010) by Arturo Fontaine and Carne de perra (2009) by Fátima Sime– all of which leading parts are women who, in a more or less compelled or voluntary way, took up repressive and even criminal roles, in the seventies and eighties in their countries. 

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Macarena Areco

Universidad Diego Portales, Chile mareco@uc.cl