Andean Truths Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru / Lambright, Anne

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lambright, Anne, author.

Series:

Liverpool Latin American studies ; 14

Liverpool Latin American Studies 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History of the Americas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Other Title:

Liverpool University Press Opening the Future.

Place of Publication:

4 Cambridge Street, Liverpool L69 7ZU Liverpool University Press 2015

Summary:

Andean Truths: Transitional Justice, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production in Post-Shining Path Peru studies how literature, drama, film, and the visual arts contest the dominant narrative of national peace and reconciliation, as constructed by Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Established in 2001, the Commission aimed to 'investigate and make public the truth' of the country's twenty-year civil war, drawing upon homologous predecessors that provided a highly scripted model of truth-gathering and national healing. In this model, a predetermined collective mourning, catharsis, and reconciliation would move the nation forward in a consensually-determined fashion. Andean Truths shows that the Peruvian case proves internationally-endorsed models insufficient for arriving at the 'truth' of a national trauma that primarily affected disenfranchised ethnic groups, namely, the Andean Quechua speaking populations that accounted for the overwhelming majority of victims of the violence. ... Publisher description

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Other Format:

Print version

ISBN:

9781781384374

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access