Peru was enveloped in an internal armed conflict from 1980 to 2000. The Shining Path, a militant communist group, sought to revolutionize Peru through violence.

Place, memory, and the postwar -- Enacting post-conflict nationhood -- Yuyanapaq doesn't fit -- "There isn't just one memory, there are many memories" -- Memory

Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outrea

Reveals and analyzes how Peru's military elite have engaged in a cultural campaign--via memoirs, novels, films, museums--to shift public memory and debate about

As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote re