Mining Memory: Reimagining Self And Nation Through Narratives Of Childhood In Peru (bucknell Studies In Latin American Literature And Theory)
by Mary Beth Tierney-Tello /
2017 / English / PDF
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Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century
has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of
age.
Every major Peruvian author of the twentieth century
has written a narrative focused on childhood or coming of
age.Mining Memory
Mining Memoryargues that
argues thatPeruvian narratives of the twentieth
century re-imagine childhood not only to document personal pasts,
but also to focus on national identity as a dynamic and incomplete
process.
Peruvian narratives of the twentieth
century re-imagine childhood not only to document personal pasts,
but also to focus on national identity as a dynamic and incomplete
process.Mining
Memory
Mining
Memoryshows how
20
shows how
20th
th-century narratives and
films reimagine the self and the nation by representing child and
adolescent protagonists and their evolution, using the remembrance
of childhood as part of a nation-making project. The book
demonstrates how, in the context of Peru, fictions focusing on
childhood become vehicles for the national reimagining and
collective remembering central to much of Latin American
literature.
-century narratives and
films reimagine the self and the nation by representing child and
adolescent protagonists and their evolution, using the remembrance
of childhood as part of a nation-making project. The book
demonstrates how, in the context of Peru, fictions focusing on
childhood become vehicles for the national reimagining and
collective remembering central to much of Latin American
literature.The figure of the child, as emblem of both a collective
memory and an always deferred utopian project, holds special
promise for twentieth-century Peruvian writers as they write from a
national context rife with cultural, racial and political conflict.
The book intervenes in debates internal to Peruvian cultural
studies as well as wider conversations in Latin American Studies
and post-colonial studies.
The figure of the child, as emblem of both a collective
memory and an always deferred utopian project, holds special
promise for twentieth-century Peruvian writers as they write from a
national context rife with cultural, racial and political conflict.
The book intervenes in debates internal to Peruvian cultural
studies as well as wider conversations in Latin American Studies
and post-colonial studies.Mining Memory
Mining Memoryprovides a new
understanding to both the Latin American and Anglo-American
traditions regarding the representations of national subjectivities
through the voices of the child and adolescent. Such a
representational strategy performs a very particular kind of
hybridity and temporal balancing act capable of addressing the very
issues of cultural memory and fractured identities so relevant to
multi-cultural, post-colonial cultural contexts.
provides a new
understanding to both the Latin American and Anglo-American
traditions regarding the representations of national subjectivities
through the voices of the child and adolescent. Such a
representational strategy performs a very particular kind of
hybridity and temporal balancing act capable of addressing the very
issues of cultural memory and fractured identities so relevant to
multi-cultural, post-colonial cultural contexts.