Dulce patria, un poemario sobre la dictadura chilena

Abstract

The dictatorships of the Southern Cone originated numerous literary texts that narrate the violence that occurred, and also purport to serve as a testimony thereof. In the present text we present the poem collection Dulce patria (Sweet Fatherland) of our authorship, and published in 2012, which recreates voices from various social groups, and thereby tells a history of the Chilean dictatorship. Violence crossed over the political and economic world, as well as labor relations and culture, and also manifested itself in other fields, such as family ties and exile. The present text aims to comment mainly on the narrative strategies used in creating the poems.