Commemorating traumatic events means attempting to activate collective memory. By examining images, metonymic invocations, built environments and digital outreach interventions, this book establishes some of the cognitive and emotional responses that make us incorporate the past suffering of others as a painful legacy of our own.

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University of Illinois, Chicago, USA

Margarita Saona

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Margarita Saona is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. She is the author of Novelas Familiares: Figuraciones de la nación en la novela latinoamericana contemporánea and numerous articles on gender, memory, and national identity.

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Book Title: Memory Matters in Transitional Peru
Authors: Margarita Saona
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137290175
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-29016-8Published: 17 October 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-45043-5Published: 17 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29017-5Published: 04 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 159
Topics: Memory Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Latin American Culture, Sociology, general, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Media Studies

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Peruvian Memory Matters

Seeing, Knowing, Feeling: Conveying Truth and Emotion through Images

Plain Things and Names

Places to Remember

Back Matter

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