Title
Memory of Violence and Drama in Peru: The Experience of the Truth Commission and Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani - Violence and Dehumanization
Date Issued
01 March 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Oxford University Press
Abstract
The theater collective Yuyachkani, a Quechua word meaning 'I am remembering,' were not strangers to the history the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission was rediscovering when they offered to contribute to the transitional justice process. They had been following the violence in Peru through their various performances and felt highly committed to the process of truth seeking and the search for reconciliation. The performances of Yuyachkani do not seek to reproduce the facts. They do not commit the naive error of certain realist art efforts, to portray social violence per se in a supposedly concrete way. Their tools are rather the symbols through which culture is expressed. It is not a matter so much of reproducing the facts as of producing effects, to reveal and convey the tragedies of Peruvian society. Performance heightens the senses and opens our imaginations to the deep truths that have been lost among the facts.
Start page
232
End page
241
Volume
14
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia política Sociología Historia
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85082037852
Source
International Journal of Transitional Justice
ISSN of the container
17527716
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