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Depiction or Erasure?

“Depiction or Erasure? Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Peruvian Film.” Interrogating Trauma: Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media. Ed. Mick Broderick and Antonio Traverso. London: Routledge, 2011. 161-177.

“Depiction or Erasure? Violence and Trauma in Contemporary Peruvian Film” Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 24.1 (Feb. 2010): 159-175.

Abstract:

Most of the 70,000 people who died or disappeared during the 1980–2000 civil war in Peru were Indigenous Quechua speakers. It is still proscribed to talk about the violent conflict in this Latin American country on the Pacific, where the high levels of poverty that may have triggered the war continue to affect 40% of the population. In this paper, I discuss the effort of three Peruvian films to respond to the trauma of misery, racism, forced migration, and dirty war experienced by both civilians and soldiers. I analyze how the films “Gregorio” (Grupo Chaski, 1984), “The Lion’s Den” (Francisco Lombardi, 1988), and “Days of Santiago” (Josué Méndez, 2004) depict or erase the persons and bodies of the Andean individuals who have suffered violence.

Key words:

indigenous women, inequality, stereotype, media, equity

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