Literary studies about the city in the Revista Chilena de Literatura. 1970-2000

Authors

  • Cristián Cisternas Ampuero Universidad de Chile

Abstract

This essay reviews a corpus of articles published in Revista Chilena de Literatura during the 1970-2000 period. These articles focus on the analysis of poetic and narrative works that share in common the representation of the city and the urban space. The essay shows a diachronic change in analysis perspectives that shift from an immanent vision of the literary work to its insertion in a heterogeneous cultural panorama. By the end of the century, a salient characteristic is the approach to literature and the experience of urban interaction from gender theories, cultural criticism, and post-structural analyses. As a conclusion, the object of representation, the city, appears as a focal point of political, aesthetic and gender-oriented debate around the concept of Modernity in Latin American societies.

Keywords:

Revista Chilena de Literatura, representation of cities, 1970-2000 historical period, literary analisis