Abstract

In this essay we aim to discuss the connections between the recent past memories in Chile and the Chilean women’s artistic productions, from the perspectives proposed by children and grandchildren of the victims of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973-1990). Our purpose is to observe how the cultural and aesthetic elaborations of traumatic memories have evolved in the works created by women artists and to study their trans-generational transmission, which implies both resilience and resistance strategies developed within a changing context. To achieve these objectives, we analyze El daño (1997), a novel by Andrea Maturana, and Reinalda del Carmen, mi madre y yo (2007), a documentary film by Lorena Giachino, work of two contemporary women that addresses these topics, focusing both on the construction of fictional worlds and on the represented subjectivities and their resilience and resistance strategies against impunity and in favour of truth and justice.