Ephemeral Histories: Public Art, Politics, and the Struggle for the Streets in Chile / Edition 1

by Camilo D. Trumper

Overview

Politics under Salvador Allende was a battle fought in the streets. Everyday attempts to “ganar la calle” allowed a wide range of urban residents to voice potent political opinions. Santiaguinos marched through the streets chanting slogans, seized public squares, and plastered city walls with graffiti, posters, and murals. Urban art might only last a few hours or a day before being torn down or painted over, but such activism allowed a wide range of city dwellers to participate in the national political arena. These popular political strategies were developed under democracy, only to be reimagined under the Pinochet dictatorship. Ephemeral Histories places urban conflict at the heart of Chilean history, exploring how marches and protests, posters and murals, documentary film and street photography, became the basis of a new form of political change in Latin America in the late twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520289918
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	07/26/2016
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Camilo D. Trumper is an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Latin American History at the University at Buffalo, SUNY.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. The Politics of the Street 1

1 Of Spoons and Other Political Things: The Design of Socialist Citizenship 17

2 Streets, Citizenship, and the Politics of Gender in Allende's Chile 43

3 A Ganar La Calle: The October Strike and the Struggle for the Streets 65

4 Political Palimpsests: Posters, Murals, and the Ephemeral Practice of Urban Politics 93

5 The Politics of Place in the "Cinema of Allende" 128

Conclusion. The Image of a Coup Foretold: Violence, Visual Regimes, and Clandestine Public Spheres 162

Epilogue. Ephemeral Histories: Erasure and the Persistence of Politics 195

Notes 199

Index 261