‘Buscamos una voz que nos reciba’. Recent Chilean narrative: complicit readings
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2014.769n5001Keywords:
Recent Chilean narrative, reception, accomplice reading, collective memory, personal memory, politics, humour, ironyAbstract
This research explores certain suggested ways of reading recent Chilean narratives, focusing particularly on a corpus of works by four authors: Alvaro Bisama, Alejandra Costamagna, María José Viera-Gallo and Alejandro Zambra. It is proposed that from reception it is possible to specify certain ways of reading that manifest themselves in the degree of complicity achieved between the reader and the works, where this is defined by the reader’s cooperation or participation in the act of reading. The reader is drawn into the work by following the signs given in it, shifting from a critical to emotional reading by updating the stories through a close link between writer, the work and the reader. Thus the works are always read in a complicit way, but from different viewpoints and on different levels. Taking these nuances into account we aim to revise three ways of complicit reading: a) through appropriation of the past, b) politically and c) dynamically.
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