Author ORCID Identifier

Cristián Doña Reveco

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-2020

Publication Title

The Latin Americanist

Volume

64

Issue

3

First Page

334

Last Page

355

Abstract

The exile after the military coup of 1973 has been the largest emigration flow in Chilean history. Using oral histories of Chilean exiles collected in the Midwest of the United States as evidence, I describe and analyze their memories of Chile during President Allende’s government and compare them with their memories of recent visits to Chile. I argue that in order to begin recuperating the memory of exile we need to understand the complex relations between the process of exile, the memories of the country of origin, and the nation-state. I conclude this article by proposing that memory not only relates to the remembrance of things past, but also how that remembrance is projected into the present and future as a way of describing the construction of identities, citizenship, and the nation-state. These constructions are a central component of the connections former exiles want to have with the country of origin, including their inclusion in the nation’s history.

Comments

This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Doña-Reveco, Cristián. "Memories of Exile and Temporary Return: Chilean Exiles Remember Chile." The Latin Americanist, vol. 64 no. 3, 2020, p. 334-355. It has been published in final form at Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/764890. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes only.

To see the related dataset, please visit the following address for more information: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4086099.

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