Conflicted Memory : Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru

Milton, Cynthia E.

ISBN 10: 0299315045 / ISBN 13: 9780299315047

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Conflicted Memory : Military Cultural Interventions and the Human Rights Era in Peru
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299315045
• ISBN 13: 9780299315047
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Cynthia E. 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 role it played in the nation's recent violent past. Milton calls attention to fabrications and 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.

About the Author

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. Her coedited works include The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule and Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places.