Filmmaker and author Rodrigo Dorfman joins the podcast to discuss his 2023 memoir Generation Exile: The Lives I Leave Behind.

Spanning four continents and a hundred years of personal history, Generation Exile Provides an insightful meditation on one man's experience as a political exile and migrant and his life-long quest to establish family, roots, and a sense of belonging by bearing witness to what he calls the "Nuevo South."

Rodrigo Dorfman is a Chilean-born Latino writer, visual storyteller, performance artist, and the son of famed Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman. His Docu-Memoir, Generation Exile was recently published by Arte Publico Press and is available for purchase online: https://artepublicopress.com/product/generation-exile-the-lives-i-leave-behind/

Additional reading from LAP on Chile and political exile:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X07302902

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0094582X16683374

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