Written in Exile

<p>On September 11 1973 Chile's General Pinochet led a quick and brutal military coup ousting the Allende government. Ignacio Lopez-Calvo argues that the rise of the Pinochet dictatorship and the subsequent imprisonment of any Allende sympathizers shaped Chilean narrative into two structural forms: <em>liberationist narrative</em>--cathartic journalistic testimonies that provide models for revolutionary behavior against authoritarianism and <em>demystifying narrative</em> which uses the events of 1973 as well as the colonial aspirations of European countries as a Paradise Lost backdrop in which the characters of this type of fiction are able to create their non-political realities that become models of democratization.</p>