Resumen
This article seeks to analyze some discursive elements of nation building during the years of the Chilean Popular Front (1938-1941). As a center-leftist political coalition, it raised a nation-building project, which integrated social actors hitherto excluded from the institutional place of power. The Popular Front considered itself a new stage in the Chilean political path but, at the same time, it had to incorporate traditional aspects of identity references in Chile. In that articulation, we can observe the relevance of national unity as an ideal, looking for the nation?s cohesion, and also the use of order and Chilean exceptionality as a value. Thus, this research proposes focusing on the fissures and contradictions of national representations, from a historical juncture of the Chilean twentieth century.