Conflicted memory : military cultural interventions and the human rights era in Peru / Cynthia E. Milton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Milton, Cynthia E., author.

Series:

Critical human rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armed Forces.

Historiography.

Collective memory.

Memory--Political aspects.

Political violence.

Human rights.

Peru--History--1980-.

Peru.

History.

Peru--Politics and government--1980-.

Politics and government.

Human rights--Peru--Historiography--20th century.

Political violence--Peru--Historiography--20th century.

Memory--Political aspects--Peru.

Memory.

Collective memory--Peru.

Peru--Armed Forces--Historiography.

Physical Description:

xv, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]

Summary:

What happens when concepts of "truth," "memory," and "human rights" are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of violence? Peru has moved from the 1980s-90s conflict between its armed forces and Shining Path militants into a global era of open democracy, transitional justice, and truth and reconciliation commissions. Cynthia E. Milton reveals how Peru's military has engaged in a tactical cultural campaign-via books, films, and museums-to shift public opinion, debate, and memories about the nation's violent recent past and its part in it. Milton calls attention to fabrications of our post-truth era but goes further to deeply explore the ways members of the Peruvian military see their past, how they actively commemorate and curate it in the present, and why they do so. Her nuanced approach upends frameworks of memory studies that reduce military and ex-military to a predictable role of outright denial. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the countermemories of "los buenos militares"

Military memory books: picking up pens to recount their truths

The army's memory entrepreneurs and their truth report

Guerra fratricida: the parallel lives and writings of Carlos Freyre and Lurgio Gavilán

Military curations in the turn to human rights museology

Captive to history: military memories and censorship in public spaces

Conclusion: the army's dirge and countermemorial resurrection in the era of human rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index.

ISBN:

9780299315009

0299315002

OCLC:

983786141