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Memory Matters in Transitional Peru M. Saona

Memory Matters in Transitional Peru By M. Saona

Memory Matters in Transitional Peru by M. Saona

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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.

Memory Matters in Transitional Peru Summary

Memory Matters in Transitional Peru by M. Saona

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.

About M. Saona

Margarita Saona is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is the author of Novelas Familiares: Figuraciones de la nacion en la novela latinoamericana contemporanea and numerous articles on gender, memory, and national identity.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of Acronyms PART I: INTRODUCTION: PERUVIAN MEMORY MATTERS 1. The Mandate to Remember 2. Remembering the Pain of Others PART II: SEEING, KNOWING, FEELING: CONVEYING TRUTH AND EMOTION THROUGH IMAGES 1. Yuyanapaq: Using Images in Order to Remember 2. Images, Photography, and Truth 3. Photography, Memory, and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Witnessing 4. Imagining the Memories of Others PART III: PLAIN THINGS AND NAMES 1. Naming the Victims: The Controversies Surrounding El ojo que llora 2. The Things they Carried: Embodied Evocation in 'Si no vuelvo, busquenme en Putis.' PART IV: PLACES TO REMEMBER 1. Creating Sites of Memory 2. Here 3. Dislocating Memory Afterword Notes References Index

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NLS9781349450435
9781349450435
134945043X
Memory Matters in Transitional Peru by M. Saona
M. Saona
Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2014-10-17
159
N/A
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