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Title: Flight from Chile
Condition: New
Subtitle: An Oral History of Exile
Author: Rody Oñate, Thomas Wright
Translator: Irene Hodgson
Contributor: Irene Hodgson (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780826365484
ISBN: 9780826365484
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: History, Social Sciences
Release Date: 15/08/2023
Description: 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of General Pinochet's coup on September 11, 1973. During the wave of mass arrests, torture, and executions that followed, people began fleeing Chile. Over the next fifteen years some two hundred thousand Chileans sought exile in countries around the world. Out of their anguish and anger come these moving and powerful testimonies of their fractured lives--the first oral history of the Chilean diaspora, now revised and updated.

Many who fled had been tortured, and they clung to the principle that the dictatorship was an evil that had to be destroyed. But their zeal and solidarity with other refugees often failed to sustain families. Many marriages collapsed, and children lost interest in their native land and culture. After civilian rule returned in 1990, many returning exiles felt estranged from a homeland forever changed. This timely update of the 1998 collection continues to remind us of the fracturing legacy and enduring oppression of usurpation and authoritarian rule long after its time has passed.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 161g
Release Year: 2023

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