25 documents in Truth and Reconciliation Commission - Peru
Yuyarisun is an archive of testimonies from community members of Ayacucho and Huancavelica, Peru, that document the political violence of Peru's last two decades. The archive is organized into four …
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, …
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 …
Yuyaykuna expresses the profound feelings of the men and women of the Andes, of those who personally suffered the ill-fated years of war, terror, and death in the eighties and …
"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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
"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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