A critical dialogue with the ideological value of literature anchored in the Concertacionist transition

Abstract

This article proposes that the literature that stands at the center of academic study and the market in the era of the ‘Concertacionist’ transition is the one that is anchored in the dictatorial memory, the concept of post-memory being the model that is more replicated in the novels which claim privilege in the cultural field. First, the question is addressed about the historical configuration of the present through the term post-dictatorship, due to the appearance of a citizenship that has problematized the institutions that make up representative democracies. Then the idea is discussed with the critical referents that the writer of the post-traumatic society is locked in a thematic field determined by the dictatorship. Finally, a textual analysis is carried out of Alejandra Costamagna’s “En voz baja”, which shows how these types of novels represent an articulated memory deriving from the power relations of representative democracies.