Memory matters in transitional Peru /
Saona, M.author.
Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; List of Acronyms; 1 Introduction: Peruvian Memory Matters; The CVR and the mandate to remember; Remembering the pain of others: Knowing and feeling in the construction of collective memory; 2 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; 3 Plain Things and Names; Naming the victims: The controversies surrounding" El ojo que llora"
The things they carried: Embodied evocation in Si no vuelvo búsquenme en Putis4 Places to Remember; Creating sites of memory; Here; Dislocating memory; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own.
Peru. Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación.
Historiography.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Sociology.
Social groups.
Family.
Communication.
Memory Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Latin American Culture.
Sociology, general.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Media Studies.