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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166652503321

Titolo

Art from a fractured past : memory and truth telling in post "Shining Path" Peru / / Cynthia E. Milton, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-306-45434-4

0-8223-7746-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MiltonCynthia E

Disciplina

700.985/09048

700.98509048

Soggetti

Arts - Political aspects - Peru

Collective memory in art

Peru Politics and government 1980-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Images of truth : rescuing memories of Peru's internal war through art / by Cynthia E. Milton -- Chungui : ethnographic drawings of violence and traces of memory / by Edilberto Jiménez Quispe -- Narrating stories, representing memories : retablos and violence in Peru / by María Eugenia Ulfe -- Violence, guilt, and repetition : Alonso Cueto's novel La hora azul / by Víctor Vich -- Rupay : (Hi)stories of political violence in Peru, 1980-1984 / by Luis Rossell, Alfredo Villar, and Jesús Cossio -- Ayacuchano cinema and the filming of violence : interview with Palito Ortega Matute / by Ponciano del Pino -- Commemorative paths in Sacsamarca / by Ricardo Caro Cárdenas -- Colliding with memory : Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani's "Sin Título, Técnica Mixta" / by Cynthia M. Garza -- The "voice of the victims" : testimonial songs in rural Ayacucho? / by Jonathan Ritter -- The artist's truth : The post-Auschwitz predicament after Latin America's age of dirty wars / by Steve J. Stern.

Sommario/riassunto

Art from a Fractured Past is an interdisciplinary collection examining how Peruvians are representing, and attempting to make sense of, the violence of the 1980s and 1990s through art, including drawings, monuments, fiction, theater, and cinema.