Metaphors of hygiene and lighten of the city poetized under the authoritarian Chile

Abstract

The city represented in the poetry y art video edited in Chile under the period of the military dictatorship exhibit similarities which are expressed in the symbolic cores of hygienization and lighten. On the basis of these rhetorical convergences, it is possible to map out courses of reading among the poems written by Raúl Zurita, Alexis Figueroa, Tomas Harris and Carmen Berenguer and the videos made by visual artists belonging to the emergent group from the period, such as Eugenio Dittborn, Magaly Meneses, Diamela Eltit and Lotty Rosenfeld.