15 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
"The nature of this document is somewhat undefined. In its form it groups short narratives, halfway between reflections and biographical notes from an era of violence. Let us call them …
This thesis draws on the testimonies of former police officers and former military personnel compiled by the Comisión de la Verdad y la Reconciliación before publishing the Final Report in …
The civil war in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s was a fertile ground for the emergence of new actors with various names, but reflecting a similar reality. The so-called …
The book reviewed below brings together a set of eight essays on literary works in which the representation of political violence has been central. Added to these is a final …
This university thesis on the testimony recorded by the CVR during Public Hearings proposes an analysis from literary theory and the interdisciplinarity of the discursive manifestations of these divisions that …
After the auspicious reception of Abril rojo (2006) by the public, expectations for a new work from Santiago Roncagliolo are understandable, especially since it addresses the theme that earned him …
For a decade and a half, Peru was the scene and victim of a war that had no trenches and no pauses. A war that some wished to ignore and …
The various issues presented in the novel "Rosa Cuchillo" (Óscar Colchado) revolve around the interconnection of two fundamental aspects. First, its condition as a bicultural novel — that is, a …
"En las fauces de las fieras" brings together three extraordinary stories that address, with bold prose, the ever-relevant theme of political violence in society and the way it intrudes upon …
Abimael Guzmán, Edith Lagos, Osmán Morote, Víctor Polay, Néstor Cerpa and "Feliciano"; the attack on and liberation of the CRAS in Ayacucho, the massacre of eight journalists in Uchuraccay, the …
This work is the personal testimony of Antonio Parodi Buendía, a writer by profession, who in 1987 embarked on a journey through the department of Ayacucho, which at that time …
Mauro Rondinel is a writer from the city of Huanta. "Morir en Uchuraccay" is a novel structured in 19 chapters divided into four parts. In the book, Rondinel fictionalizes in …
This book reflects the modest wisdom of a man who spent decades traveling the roads of Peru, bending his back and "sweating it out," as he himself says, in order …
Stories inspired by the years of terrorist violence in Peru. The first story, "El Barranquino," narrates the life of a young man on the threshold of youth and in search …
Much has already been written about Shining Path and the revolutionary war it began 11 years ago in Peru, but perhaps the first serious, dispassionate, and comprehensive work on the …
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