Three early plays from influential Canadian Latina playwright, Carmen
Aguirre. The plays, Chile Con Carne, ¿QUE PASA with LA RAZA, eh?,
and In a Land Called I Don't Remember, deal with the experience of
exile - the hardships, the heartache, and the horror - as well as
revealing the fresh perspective refugees bring to North American
society. Written in the 1990s, all three plays explore the far-reaching
effects of the violence and terror the regime of now-ousted dictator
Augusto Pinochet, still in power during the plays' composition,
inflicted on the Chilean population, both at home and abroad, effects
explored in many of Aguirre's award-winning later plays. These are
impacts refugees cannot escape even when they manage to flee to physical
safety; the plays' explorations of refuge and recovery are as pertinent
now as they were when they were first written.