A portrait of postdictatorial Chile by one of that countryOCOs most incisive cultural critics, Cultural Residues uses memoirs, photographs, art, and novelsOCothe OC residuesOCO of a cultureOCoto analyze the political-cultural Chilean landscape in the wake of Augusto PinochetOCOs seventeen-year military rule. According to Nelly Richard, such residual areas reveal the flaws in ChileOCOs transition from violent dictatorship to electoral democracy."