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Conflicted memory, military cultural interventions and the human rights era in Peru, Cynthia E. Milton

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-268) and index

illustrations

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non fiction

Conflicted memory

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Cynthia E. Milton

Critical human rights

military cultural interventions and the human rights era in Peru

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. --, Provided by publisher

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