Conflicted Memory Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru
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Biografisk notat
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 PostShining Path Peru. Her coedited works include The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule and Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places.Brings to light how military 'entrepreneurs of memory' strategically place memory products in a memory marketplace. A major intervention in debates about Peru's internal armed conflict of the 1980s and '90s and its aftermath, which will interest scholars in many disciplines and regions."" - Paulo Drinot, coeditor of <i>Comics and Memory in Latin America</i><br /><br />""Impressively documents the military's diverse interventions in Peru's culture - memoirs, 'truth' reports, films, novels, and memorials - and its numerous attempts to censor cultural productions that challenge its preferred narrative."" - Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University
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.