The Fictions of a Civilian Accomplice to the Pinochet Regime: Mariana Callejas’s Secret Shame

Michael J. Lazzara is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Davis, as well as Chair of the Graduate Designated Emphasis in Human Rights Studies. He is author of Civil Obedience: Complicity and Complacency in Chile since Pinochet (2018), Luz Arce and Pinochet’s Chile: Testimony in the Aftermath of State Violence (2011), and Chile in Transition: The Poetics and Politics of Memory (2006).

Sponsored by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, and the Gender Studies Program.