Remembering a Socialist Future in Postdictatorship Chile: Utopian Anticipation and Anti-utopian Critique in Jorge Baradit's Synco

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datacite.alternateIdentifier.citationUTOPIAN STUDIES,Vol.29,398-415,2018
datacite.creatorSaldías Rossel, Gabriel
datacite.date2018
datacite.subject.englishsocialism
datacite.subject.englishdystopia
datacite.subject.englishChile
datacite.subject.englishAllende
datacite.subject.englishideology
datacite.subject.englishpostdictatorship
datacite.subject.englishanti-utopia
datacite.titleRemembering a Socialist Future in Postdictatorship Chile: Utopian Anticipation and Anti-utopian Critique in Jorge Baradit's Synco
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-30T16:31:17Z
dc.date.available2021-04-30T16:31:17Z
dc.description.abstractThe objective of the article is to describe and problematize the concept of socialist utopianism in the Chilean context of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through an analysis of Jorge Baradit's alternate history novel, Synco. Published in 2008 but chronologically situated in the 1980s, Baradit's novel imagines socialist Chile as a dystopia disguised as a technologically advanced eutopia. This brings into the foreground many utopian contents of the past socialist experience in the country that are eventually dismantled by the anti-utopian anti-ideological postdictatorship perspective of the author, which constitutes both a critique and a testament of the weakened state of current political trust and militancy in the country.
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositoriodigital.uct.cl/handle/10925/2854
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPENN STATE UNIV PRESS
dc.sourceUTOPIAN STUDIES
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