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" Mito, novela y testimonio: Discursos de la memoria sobre el conflicto armado peruano "
Alagna, Giosuè A.
Medina, Rubén
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Latin Dissertation
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Spanish
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1052758
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TL51875
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Alagna, Giosuè A.
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Mito, novela y testimonio: Discursos de la memoria sobre el conflicto armado peruano\ Alagna, Giosuè A.Medina, Rubén
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The University of Wisconsin - Madison
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2019
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Ph.D.
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2019
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268 p.
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“Mito, novela y testimonio. Discursos de la memoria sobre el conflicto armado peruano,” considers the configuration of social memories of the Peruvian armed conflict (1980–2000) through an analysis of key testimonial, theatrical, and literary texts. By employing a comparative and interdisciplinary approach that draws on memory studies, sociology, and anthropology, this study theorizes that tropes of rupture, entrapment, and awakening organize subaltern memory discourses vis-à-vis a heroic narrative that portrays an authoritarian State as the savior of the nation. Chapter one lays down the theoretical framework and engages in a comparative analysis of memory formations in Chile and Peru, showing that the debate over memory in Peruvian society reached an impasse in the aftermath of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), as narratives of rupture and entrapment competed fiercely in the public arena against the State narrative of salvation. Chapter two considers two novels and their theatrical adaptations in the context of the TRC to reveal the interplay between literary production and social memory. I argue that the novels and the performances not only counter the official narrative but engage the memory question from a decolonial perspective, drawing on Andean myths as they articulate representations of the conflict. Chapter three studies a narrative of entrapment portraying peasants as pure, innocent victims caught in the crossfire. An analysis of a well-known collection of testimonies shows that this narrative simplifies the complexity of subject positions during the war by silencing a long history of peasant political activism and, in some cases, initial support for the Shining Path. I further argue that memory as entrapment was coupled with memory as salvation to preserve internal communal bonds and to discursively integrate historically marginalized communities into a broader national narrative. The final chapter examines Los rendidos (2015) by José Carlos Agüero, whose discursive and performative redefinition of victim and forgiveness, in addition to his role in the development of Peru’s memory museum, mark a turning point in the memory debate by pressing for public recognition of subversive subjects and their relatives as possible victims of State terror and as lives worthy of being mourned.
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Latin American history
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Latin American literature
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Latin American studies
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Medina, Rubén
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The University of Wisconsin - Madison
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