Towards a new Chile through the heart: aspects on the construction of a nationalist emotionology in school textbooks during Pinochet years (c.1974-c.1984)

Through the analysis of textbooks of history and social sciences and complementary literature used in Chilean educational system during the period 1974-1984, this article discusses a dimension not yet studied about the nationalist proposals promoted by the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet in Chile: the construction of a nationalist emotional project or, in terms of Peter Stearns, an induced emotionology , among other means, by rearticulating interpretations of the history of Chile and the imposition of a nationalist matrix, an anti-Marxist and conservative Catholicism discourse regarding to society and culture. Beyond iconographic analyses (Jara), conceptual approaches (Olivares) or a focus on the censorship in?icted to textbooks (Ochoa), our article moves on a new perspective on the problem of nationalism and patriotic loyalty, an object that has become one of the ?rst issues in the history of emotions, trying to provide a discussion focused not merely on the of?cials own discursive construction but rather analyzing how to access to «structures of feeling» (Sobe)