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The Hope We Still Hang Onto: A memoir of prison, resistance and sisterhood in Pinochet's Chile

The Hope We Still Hang Onto: A memoir of prison, resistance and sisterhood in Pinochet's Chile

Mitchell, Barbara
Aravena, Arinda Ojeda

Paperback

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1911587951
ISBN13: 9781911587958
Publisher: Palewell Press
Published: Nov 3 2025
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

A vivid and inspiring account of the author's experiences while a political prisoner during the Pinochet era. It begins in 1981 with Arinda's clandestine return to Chile from exile and her subsequent capture by the secret police. She was one of many political prisoners, whose crime was stubborn resistance to the military dictatorship and its programme of forced disappearances, torture and assassination. During her eight years in jail she and her cell-mates learned to live together and continue the struggle from the inside. We also witness her growing understanding of the discrimination-from all sides-that she faced as a woman, and her discovery of the therapeutic power of writing, especially of poetry, Despite the fragility of human bodies subjected to inhuman degradation, Arinda's account shows how personal strength and solidarity among the female political prisoners played a crucial part in helping them to survive.

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