La escritura como resistencia: pensamiento político en De amor y de sombra

Abstract

Abstract: This essay examines how De amor y de sombra(1984) turns fiction into an act of denunciation against state violence during Chile s military dictatorship. The topic emerges from a simple unease: when fear erases evidence and silences voices, what can literature still do? The thesis argues that Allende builds memory and resistance through a journalistic gaze that investigates, characters who carry the intimate cost of terror, and a narrative ethic that names what power tried to hide.The method is qualitative. It uses close reading of selected passages for their testimonial weight (repression, the search for the disappeared, the discovery of remains) and reads them through a framework on memory and testimony (Jelin, 2002; Ricoeur, 2003; Sarlo, 2005), resistance and post-dictatorship writing (Avelar, 2000; Taylor, 2003; Beverley, 1993), and gendered approaches to writing and politics (Richard, 2004; Kirkwood, 1986; Spivak, 1988). The analysis links Chile s context with the novel s international reception. The findings show a novel that does not merely reflect history; it argues with it.