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Flight from Chile: voices of exile

By Thomas C. Wright , Rody Oñate

Book information

Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Year
1998
ISBN
0826318916, 9780826318916
LCC
F3100 .D4813 1998
Google Books ID
B0t7AAAAMAAJ
Open Library ID
OL353405M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
612 kB (626274 bytes)
Edition
Library edition
Pages
\0
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Mass arrests, torture, and executions followed General Pinochet's coup on September 11, 1973. Almost immediately people began fleeing Chile, and over the next fifteen years some 200,000 Chileans sought exile in nearly 140 countries. Out of their anguish and anger comes the first oral history, or testimonies, of their fractured lives. Many who fled had been tortured, and they clung to the principle that the dictatorship was an evil that had to be destroyed. But their zeal and solidarity with other refugees often failed to sustain families, and the majority of marriages collapsed and children often lost interest in their native land and culture. After civilian rule emerged in 1989, many returning exiles felt estranged from a homeland forever changed. "A compelling and moving account."--Marjorie Agos?n, author of Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile, 1974-1994

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