Chile

This course discusses memory and human rights from the perspective of Chilean literary and cultural production of the dictatorial and post-dictatorial period. It reviews some of the most important works published and performed within the last four decades. Selections include three main literary genres each week: the novel, poetry, and theater/film. The discussion of these materials also includes theoretical studies about the period in question and the importance and difficulties of human rights and memory as social practices.

This course discusses the main applications of linguistics in the analysis of the language in legal documents, language used in legal contexts, and language produced by those familiar with the field in the forensic institutional context. It explores the theoretical-methodological problems in the linguistic analysis of forensic text as well as the unequal distribution of power in the forensic institutional context.

The course offers a study of some of the forms of violence that can be found in the post-dictatorship Chilean narrative. It discusses different expressions of social violence and its impact on the discourse of ideas in Chilean society. This course explores post-dictatorship Chilean novels which offer a vision of the world in which some form of violence is also included.