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Book SynopsisUnsettling Nostalgia in Spain and Chile: Longing for Resistance in Literature and Film reframes nostalgia to analyze how writers and filmmakers have responded to 20th-century dictatorial violence and loss in Spain and Chile. By reaching beyond reductive definitions that limit nostalgia to a conservative desire to defend traditional power hierarchies, Lisa DiGiovanni captures the complexity of a critically conscious type of longing and form of transmission that she terms unsettling nostalgia. Using literature and film, DiGiovanni illustrates how unsettling nostalgia imbues representations of pre-dictatorial mobilization during the Second Spanish Republic (19311939) and the Chilean Popular Unity (19701973), as well as depictions of clandestine resistance to the Franco dictatorship (19391975) and the Pinochet regime (19731989). Positive memories of efforts to upend power hierarchies coexist with retrospective critiques that fissure romanticized views of revolutionary struggle. Unsettling
Table of ContentsPrologue: Longing for Resistance Introduction: Politics and Poetics of Nostalgia in Spain and Chile 1.Unsettling Nostalgia in Roberto Brodsky’s Últimos días de la historia 2.Memories of Motherhood and Militancy in Calle Santa Fe by Carmen Castillo 3.Unsettling the Archive: De monstruos y faldas by Carolina Astudillo 4.Postwar Prison Nostalgia: La voz dormida by Dulce Chacón 5.Nostalgia and Inner Exile: El corazón helado and El lector de Julio Verne by Almudena Grandes 6.Detective Pursuits of an Ironic Nostalgic: Roberto Bolaño’s Estrella distante
