ABSTRACT
There are various other individual subversions that, together with the indigenous people’s new social awareness, symbolize the friction among social classes. The elderly indigenous people, whose backs are hunched by centuries of fear and submission, portray the margin of Chilean society. The children, a metaphor for the middle class, do not have the right to be considered human until they reach the age of seventeen. The adults humiliate the children, as a symbol of the infantilization of the citizens by the military junta. Some time after the initial repercussions of the institutional crisis were exposed in testimonial accounts, Chilean writers begin to elaborate an introspective interpretation of the internal constitution of their society. Chilean authors living in exile realize that the oppressive organization that controls their society presents deeper ramifications than the ones seen only on the surface.
