Resistances in the Resistance: Dystopian Representations of Hope in La última canción de Manuel Sendero and El ruido

Abstract

The present article examines the role of hope in two dystopian novels published during the last military dictatorship in Chile. Employing a comparative approach that draws on proposals from the field of utopians studies, we seek to make manifest how the dystopian representation of hope problematizes the binary opposition between of- ficialism and resistance through a critical assessment of the conditions of possibility of hope and the inherent contradictions its configuration and political manifestation entails in a context of authoritarian dictatorship