Memories of horror: Las Brutas, by Juan Radrigán, Hans Pozo, by Luis Barrales, and Hilda Peña, by Isidora Stevenson.

Abstract

This work will focus on three Chilean plays: Las brutas (1980), by Juan Radrigán, Hans Pozo, by Luis Barrales, and Hilda Peña, by Isidora Stevenson. All three of them return toreal events: the suicide of three women of the Kolla ethnic group, the dismemberment of Hans Pozo and the shooting after the assault on the O’Higgins Bank perpetuated by the Lautaro Youth Movement. These incidents are fictionalized and, for this, collective memory, imagination and social contexts of enunciation are used. They are delusional stories written in the popular variant of the main characters, who travel between the realand the fictional. The horror is established from the story of the experience of these three Kolla women, the voices of the individuals involved in the life of the dismembered man, and the voice of the mother of one of the dead men in the shooting in Hilda Peña.