
Conflicted Memory
Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru
Cynthia E. Milton(Author)
University of Wisconsin Press
Published on 30. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-299-31504-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 an era of open democracy, transitional justice, and truth and reconciliation commissions. Cynthia Milton reveals how Peru's military has engaged in a tactical cultural campaign-via books, films, 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.
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
26 black & white illustrations, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-299-31504-7 (9780299315047)
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Cynthia E. Milton is the Canada Research Chair in Latin American History at the Université de Montréal. She is the editor of Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-Telling in Post-Shining Path Peru.