Diamela Eltit
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Diamela Eltit (born 1949, Santiago de Chile) is a writer and a Spanish teacher from Chile.
She got a bachelor degree in literature and works in the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana. She was culture attaché during Patricio Aylwin's government at the Chilean Embassy in Mexico. In her books, she breaks the traditional novel patterns with sordid places, marginal characters and a prose marked by an ambiguous speech and exaltations to the body of the hurt woman. She's one of the members of the so-called generación del 87, after Salvador Allende's administration.
Diamela Eltit is and was, especially during the junta government, a performance artist and social examiner. Her work often subverts the norm and examines the structure of oppression and repressed desire.
