Memory matters in transitional Peru / Margarita Saona, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Saona, Margarita, author.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Political aspects.

Memorialization.

Collective memory.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Memory--Political aspects.

Peru--Politics and government--1980-.

Peru.

Politics and government.

Peru--Social conditions--1968-.

Social conditions.

Memory--Political aspects--Peru.

Memory--Social aspects--Peru.

Collective memory--Peru.

Memorialization--Peru.

Arts--Political aspects--Peru.

Arts.

Collective memory in art.

Political violence in art.

Peru. Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación.

Political science.

Social history.

Physical Description:

xv, 159 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Summary:

In 2003, the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission reported that 70,000 people had been killed in the country during the conflict between the Peruvian Armed Forces, the Shining Path, and other terrorist organizations. The precept of the Commission became: "A country that forgets its history is condemned to repeat it.' The idea of making the country "remember" guided many of the Commission's initiatives, including a ground-breaking photo exhibit entitled "Yuyanapaq," a Quechua word translated as "in order to remember." But what does it mean for a country to remember? How do we remember (collectively)? Margarita Saona examines the mechanisms activated by art and memorials built to commemorate traumatic events at the social level. By examining images, metonymic invocations, the use of proper names, auratic crime scenes, built environments, and digital outreach interventions, Memory Matters in Transitional Peru seeks to establish some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own. Book jacket.

Contents:

I. Introduction: Peruvian memory matters

The mandate to remember

Remembering the pain of others

II. Seeing, knowing, feeling : conveying truth and emotion through images

Yuyanapaq : using images in order to remember

Images, photography, and truth

Photography, memory, and the ethics and aesthetics of witnessing

Imagining the memories of others

III. Plain things and names

Naming the victims : the controversies surrounding El Ojoquellora

The things they carried : embodied evocation in "Si no vuelvo, busquenme en Putis"

IV. Places to remember

Creating sites of memory

Here

Dislocating memory

Afterword.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137290168

1137290161

OCLC:

881659763

Publisher Number:

99960455929