Expressions of National Crisis: Diamela Eltit's E. Luminata and Pablo Picasso's Guernica

Diamela Eltit emerged as a writer during the 1980s when Chile was ruled by the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973 -1989). The obscurity of her first book, Lumpérica (trans. E. Luminata ) reflects that period of national repression. Despite the negligible attention she receive...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gisela Norat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 2006-06-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol30/iss2/7