Art from a fractured past : memory and truth-telling in post-Shining Path Peru / Cynthia E. Milton, editor ; afterword / Steve J. Stern.

Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission not only documented the political violence of the 1980s and 1990s but also gave Peruvians a unique opportunity to examine the causes and nature of that violence. In Art from a Fractured Past, scholars and artists expand on the commission's work, a...

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Other Authors: Milton, Cynthia E. (Editor), Stern, Steve J., 1951- (writer of afterword.)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]
Edition:[Open access version].
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Table of Contents:
  • Images of truth : rescuing memories of Peru's internal war through testimonial art / Cynthia E. Milton
  • Chungui : ethnographic drawings of violence and traces of memory / Edilberto Jiménez Quispe
  • Narrating stories, representing memories : retablos and violence in Peru / María Eugenia Ulfe
  • Violence, guilt, and repetition : Alonso Cueto's novel La Hora Azul / Víctor Vich
  • Rupay : (Hi)stories of political violence in Peru, 1980-1984 / Luis Rossell, Alfredo Villar, and Jesús Cossio
  • Ayacuchano cinema and the filming of violence : interview with Palito Ortega Matute / Ponciano del Pino
  • Commemorative paths in Sacsamarca / Ricardo Caro Cárdenas
  • Colliding with memory : Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani's Sin Título, Técnica Mixta / Cynthia M. Garza
  • The "voice of the victims" : testimonial songs in rural Ayacucho / Jonathan Ritter
  • The artist's truth : the post-Auschwitz predicament after Latin America's age of dirty wars / Steve J. Stern.