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  • Giuseppe Gatti Riccardi
Vol. 32 No. 1 (2017): Memoria Histórica/Transiciones, Transiciones, pages 227-256
Submitted: Jun 2, 2017 Published: Jun 2, 2017

Abstract

The object of this study is the play José, written by the Chilean playwright Egon Wolff in March 1980. Our analysis begins with the definition of a historical framework that refers to the stage of the brief economic Chilean boom during the regime of General Pinochet, a context in which the strict socioecono- mic separation between social classes is consolidated and the opposition between the wealthy class and the most disadvantaged sectors of the population generates a process of urban segregation. Our approach analyzes Wolff’s double attempt to dismantle the social system by criticizing the internal mechanisms of some Chilean social class which —fearing the transition from an atavistic social order to an another without hierarchy— uses a sort of “protective social mask”. The theoretical apparatus that we propose in order to analyze the discursive practices about geo-social and economic distribution of the population relies on Zygmunt Bauman and Richard Sennett studies, especially the ones about the relationship with the Other. For the second part of our study —which reviews the values and emotional betrayal and the “internal injustices” within the macro-social and family context— we will look at the works of Bachelard and Keulartz, among others.

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