Never So Close Did the Distant Strike. Memory and Political Violence in Peru

This work explores the scenario of violence and the ways in which the memory of Uchuraccay operates — a community that, after the massacre, became an emblematic reference point for political violence and for the images of the "Indian" still dominant in the country. However, this emblematic reference does not represent everything that this population experienced during the long years of political violence. The text is divided into three chapters. The first develops the difficult process of return and its meanings as it seeks to reconcile the various dimensions of life and the memory of political violence for the people of Uchuraccay. The second chapter is a review of the academic representation of political violence in the Andes in the wake of the killing of the eight journalists. Finally, the third chapter explores the uses of and struggles over memories that unfold among the different actors involved in the killing of the journalists, where the signification and re-signification of these events shape the identities with which these actors participate from the present. (Excerpt from the foreword).