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Author Milton, Cynthia E., author.

Title Conflicted memory : military cultural interventions and the human rights era in Peru / Cynthia E. Milton
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 276 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical human rights
Critical human rights.
Contents Introduction: the countermemories of "los buenos militares" -- Military memory books: picking up pens to recount their truths -- The army's memory entrepreneurs and their truth report -- Guerra fratricida: the parallel lives and writings of Carlos Freyre and Lurgio Gavilán -- Military curations in the turn to human rights museology -- Captive to history: military memories and censorship in public spaces -- Conclusion: the army's dirge and countermemorial resurrection in the era of human rights
Summary What happens when concepts of "truth," "memory," and "human rights" are taken up and adapted by former perpetrators of violence? Peru has moved from the 1980s-90s conflict between its armed forces and Shining Path militants into an era of open democracy, transitional justice, and truth and reconciliation commissions. Cynthia 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 nation's violent recent past and its part in it. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index
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Subject Human rights -- Peru -- Historiography -- 20th century
Political violence -- Peru -- Historiography -- 20th century
Memory -- Political aspects -- Peru
Collective memory -- Peru
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Armed Forces -- Historiography
Collective memory
Memory -- Political aspects
Politics and government
SUBJECT Peru -- History -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94000373
Peru -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004876
Peru -- Armed Forces -- Historiography
Subject Peru
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299315030
0299315037