Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Saona, Margarita

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description

xv, 159 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Uniform Title

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.

Subject

• Peru. Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación
• Memory > Political aspects > Peru
• Memory > Social aspects > Peru
• Collective memory > Peru
• Memorialization > Peru
• Arts > Political aspects > Peru
• Collective memory in art
• Political violence in art
• Peru > Politics and government > 1980-
• Peru > Social conditions > 1968-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9781137290168
• 1137290161

LCCN

^^2014023151

OCLC

881659763

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library