34 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
Interview with Mikael Winström, director of the documentary Tempestad en los Andes (Storm in the Andes), presented at the 18th Lima Film Festival. This documentary addresses the internal war we …
This book undertakes the analysis of a selection of poems by six Peruvian authors written in Peru between 1980 and 1992. My reading centers on the premise that there is …
"La palabra de los muertos o Ayacucho hora nona" is one of the most significant poetry collections of what has come to be called the period of violence for some, …
The bodies were not difficult to locate, as they lay just below the surface. But the peasants of the southern Peruvian community of Putis had to persevere for 24 years …
Los senderos insólitos del Perú is a collective effort to build an analysis of Peruvian war and society at a moment when the country was transitioning from military authoritarianism to …
According to the Final Report of the Comision de la Verdad, 20% of the victims of political violence in Peru between 1980 and 2000 were women of all ages, social …
"Power cuts throughout the whole block. A hand arrives from afar and snatches away what you hold dearest. It always happens that under such conditions the best thing is to …
The poetic work of Roger Santiváñez is on full "militant" display in many of the poems gathered in this volume, which refer viscerally both to the repression exercised by the …
Roxana Crisologo uses verse to construct a poetic biography of a young woman she names Ludy D. She is the protagonist of a life story marked by terror, violence, and …
"The sounds of death came through the air. Don't breathe, someone said. Was it I who spoke? I don't know, but we all sensed that that agony was entering us." …
"A young man comes to Lima to be close to something alive. A young man came — from his distant village — riding a motorcycle, earned 2 sticks and thought …
According to literary critic Ricardo González Vigil, the poems of Victoria Guerrero — a doctor of literature as well as professor and researcher at the PUCP — are like a …
The fourth book by poet, literary critic, and professor Luis Fernando Chueca. The poems that make up this volume have as their protagonists the marginalized dead of contemporary Peruvian history …
The poet Roberto Zariquiey takes on the role of an archaeologist who uses verses as if they were the spatula and brush used not to unearth the remains of figures …
"Ni pan ni circo" is composed of forty poems grouped into four sections. It is the section called FRAGMENTOS in which the author addresses the theme of terrorism and political …
These are 51 pages in which Carmen Olle creates a space in which poetry is intensely associated with life, but life seen — as Luis Fernando Vidal says on the …
Memory is an exercise in constructing a representation and an imaginary, in a collective and creative manner. To build a representation, memory refers human beings to the densest and most …
Although the poetry of Marco Martos, from Piura, has been somewhat aloof from politics, it has not avoided concern for the terror and violence of the internal war experienced in …
The 69 poems by Mendizabal gathered in this volume present themselves as the externalized feelings of young people confronting the gruesome context of the internal war lived in Peru, and …
Interview with Peruvian singer-songwriter Manuelcha Prado, whose latest album, Saqra, accompanied by the Banda Kavilando, fuses Andean music with blues and jazz. His musical proposal is one more face of …
We have always believed that to achieve true national reconciliation it was necessary to know the truth of what had occurred during the years of the war. In the following …
A free version of Sophocles' tragedy that can be read not only as a Greek tragedy but can also be extrapolated as an allegory to the violent times Peru experienced …
From 1980 until the early 1990s, Peru experienced an internal war or political violence that called into question the country's viability and generated a high social cost and enormous economic …
The article offers the study of a singular case rather than a conceptual approach to the problem. Although in Peru, as in other places, impunity is a corrosive factor in …
This volume brings together six poetry collections written by Jose Antonio Mazzoti between 1981 and 1999. Among them is "Castillo de Popa" (1988), which includes a poem — "19 de …
Juan Ramirez Ruiz was born in Chiclayo in 1946 and is a founding member of the group Hora Zero. "Las armas molidas" is a book composed of verses and symbols …
The damage caused by the armed political violence that ravaged the country for 15 years is enormous. The aftermath of the internal war is felt most dramatically among the population …
"Cementerio General" is a political reflection on Peruvian history as seen through its very protagonists: men from all eras, races, and social classes who dialogue on the stage of death …
Domingo de Ramos is one of the most controversial voices in contemporary Peruvian poetry. His particular use of the lumpenesque voice of the marginal urban world of Lima is perfect …
Jorge Pimentel writes 72 poems that are like a torrent that shakes consciences and that deal with death and violence. "I speak from a shattered brain, where everything is distorted …
"Cielo forzado" is a return of the dark. Endowed with talent and love, the author unfolds a tenebrous universe contaminated by plagues and torments, where faint figures, madmen, and plague-ridden …
"Archivo de huellas digitales" won the Premio Nacional de Poesia (Premio COPE) in 1984. Eduardo Chirinos presents in some of his verses a personal vision of political violence, in which …
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