Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence [Paperback]

Since the demise of the Pinochet dictatorship in 1990, collaboration and complicity - both in the torture chamber and civil society - have been taboo topics not only for the Chilean left but also for society at large. By revisiting the experience of Luz Arce Sandoval - a leftist militant turned collaborator with Pinochet's secret police - Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile raises urgent political and ethical questions about how nations carry out unspeakable violence in the name of progress and democracy. Juxtaposing interviews, legal documents, and academic analysis, this book probes the personal and collective dimensions of torture, collaborationism, truth, justice, reconciliation, and memory, issues that resonate in Latin America and beyond.Foreword; J.Franco ? Introduction: After the Inferno; MJ.Lazzara PART I: NAMES, DATES, PLACES: SUMMARY OF LUZ ARCE'S DECLARATION BEFORE THE NATIONAL TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION (SANTIAGO DE CHILE, OCTOBER 9, 1990) PART II: INTERVIEW WITH LUZ ARCE (MEXICO, CHILE, 2002-2007) The Militant, the Sympathizer? Collaboration, Critiques, Remorse Trauma and Writing? Masculinity and Femininity Luz, Marcia, Carola (Ana Mar?a Vergara, Marta Vergara, Gloria Vilches) Shame and Reconciliation? The Present Time: New Critiques and Pending Questions * PART III: FORUM: COLLABORATION, DICTATORSHIP, DEMOCRACY Pedro Alejandro Matta? Gloria Elgueta? Victoria Langland? Patricia Espinosa? Jorge Arrate? Gabriela Z??iga Figueroa? Michael J. Lazzara? Tamara Spira

In Luz Arce and Pinochet's Chile, Michael J. Lazzara constructs a scene in which the decisive problem of ethical limits unfolds. He invites us to inhabit an intense and unstable Chilean territory: the life of a prisoner-collaborator who progressively becomes militarized and entirely estranged from herself. - Diamela Eltit, New York University

This is a fascinating and controversial testimonial project that combines legal deposition, interview and testimony. The l£@