Immigration and racism in the first Chilean polices novels

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Magda Sepúlveda

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The first police novels establish a counterdiscourse with respect to the immigration polices of the Chilean state, causing conflict regarding the situation of the foreigners that came to inhabit in out territory. Italians are presented as a closed community through which money, body and crime flow. Given this scenario, they wouldn't bring any benefit to the country. Due to the fact that immigrants are disregarded as something possitive, it is proposed that their place must be taken by popular Chilean characters. This would be a way of rewarding them for the persecutions and the mistreatments they have endured for so long. The first police novels criminalise the immigrant figure and disregard the populat character as a criminal, aspiring to establish a new order in the territory.

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Sepúlveda, M. (2018). Immigration and racism in the first Chilean polices novels. Estudios Filológicos, (41), 267–276. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0071-17132006000100016
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Magda Sepúlveda, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Este texto es parte del proyecto Fondecyt Nº 10.40.983 "E1 detective en la narrativa policial chilena del siglo XX" cuyo investigador responsable es el Dr. Clemens Franken, y del cual la autora de este artículo es coinvestigadora.