Before arriving in Lima

Screen film:
State of Fear: the truth about terrorism (2005). Produced by Paco de Onís; Directed by Pamela Yates; Edited by Peter Kinoy. Running Time: 94 minutes. Skylight Pictures.
(For those attending the advance film screening at NYU, please read the following before viewing the film:
Peru Reader, Part VI  (“The Shining Path”) and Part VII “Manchay Tiempo”
Theidon, Kimberly. Disarming the Subject: Remembering War and Imagining Citizenship in Peru. Cultural Critique - 54, Spring 2003: 67-87.
These readings are also listed below.)

Review excellent website by our colleague Gisela Cánepa Koch and her collaborators, “Fragments of Peruvian History and Society” (in English and en español) http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/cuaderno/phs/

Review the website of Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani: (in Spanish/en español) http://www.yuyachkani.org/

Recommended:

• The Hemispheric Institute web cuaderno on Yuyachkani: http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/cuaderno/yuyachkani/index.html

An interesting project on Lima and postcard views—a project by Peruvian artist Gilda Mantilla: http://www.ciudadpostal.com/

Read as much as possible by August 6; complete by August 10

For readers of English:

Isbell, Billie Jean
Violence in Peru: Performances and Dialogues
American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 100, No. 2. (June 1998) 282-292.
And review thematically related web cuaderno by Luis Millones and Ulla Berg: “Sarhua: Tierra de Montañas y Colores,” http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/cuaderno/sarhua/

Lane, Jill
Antigone, and the modernity of the dead
Forthcoming in the 50th anniversary issue of Modern Drama, 2007.

Starn, Orin, and Carlos Iván Degregori, Robin Kirk, editors
The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995. Parts V – IX.

Taylor, Diana
Staging Social Memory: Yuyachkani
In Archive and the Repertoire: Staging Cultural Memory in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2003).

Theidon, Kimberly
Disarming the Subject: Remembering War and Imagining Citizenship in Peru
Cultural Critique - 54, Spring 2003: 67-87.

 

Recommended
Before seeing Adiós Ayacucho, especially if your Spanish is not strong
Adiós Ayachucho
(adapted from the short story by Julio Ortega, translation of the script into English)

Before our ‘conversatorio’ on Alma Viva:
A'ness, Francine
Resisting Amnesia: Yuyachkani, Performance, and the Postwar Reconstruction of Peru Theatre Journal, Volume 56, Number 3, October 2004: 395–414

 

And/or

En español:

Rubio Zapata, Miguel
El Cuerpo Ausente (performance política) [Este libro se podrá comprar en Lima - This book will be available for purchase when you arrive in Lima]
Lima: 2006.
Presentación
Adiós Ayacucho

Colchado Lucio, Oscar [Este libro se podrá comprar en Lima]
Rosa Cuchillo

Hosoya, Hiromi.
La memoria post-colonial: tiempo, espacio y discursos sobre los
sucesos de Uchuraccay.
Lima: IEP, 2003. Documento de Trabajo Nº 134.

For readers of English:

Vich, Victor
Popular Capitalism and Subalternity: Street Comedians in Lima
Social Text - 81 (Volume 22, Number 4), Winter 2004: 47–64.

Rosenthal, Anton Benjamin
Spectacle, Fear, and Protest: A Guide to the History of Urban Public Space
in Latin America
Social Science History, Volume 24, Number 1, Spring 2000, 33–73.

María Rostworowski
Pachacamac and El Señor de los Milagros
In Elizabeth Hill Boone and Tom Cummins, Editors. Native Traditions in the Postconquest World. (Washington DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1998) www.doaks.org/etexts.html.

Gisela Cánepa Koch,
Media and Religion

Starn, Orin, and Carlos Iván Degregori, Robin Kirk, editors
The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1995. Part 1, Part X.

And/or en español

Gisela Cánepa Koch y María Eugenia Ulfe, editoras, Mirando la Esfera Pública desde la cultura en el Perú (CONCYTEC, 2006).
Gisela Cánepa Koch, Introducción, “Cultura y política: una reflexión en torno al sujeto público” (15-33)
María Eugenia Ulfe, Introducción, “La memoria, la esféra pública y ‘la nación en tiempo heterogéneo’” (35–50)
(recomendado) Pablo Ortemberg, “El caleidoscopio de la efeméride patria y sus proyecciones en la esfera pública: “Bienvenido Sr. Wong” (51-78)
Denise Leigh Raffo, “Intervenciones en el espacio público a través del performance: recuerdo, crisis, y Lava la Bandera” (171-186)
Gisela Cánepa Koch, “La ciudadania en escena: fiesta andina, patrimonio, y agencia cultural” (221-242)
Luis Millones, “Niños fuera de registro: la muerte temprana en las poblaciones indígenas”

Victor Vich, “Desobediencia simbólica: Performance, participación y política al final de la dictadura fujimorista,” e-misférica (vol 1:1):  http://hemi.nyu.edu/journal/1_1/vich.html

Gustavo Buntinx, “Lava la bandera: el Colectivo Sociedad Civil y el derrocamiento cultural de la dictadura en el Perú” e-misférica (vol 3:1) http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org/journal/home.php?issue=april%202006

Emilio Tarazona
Accionismo en el Perú (1965-2000). Rastros y fuentes para una primera cronología (selección)

(Se podrá comprar este libro al llegar en Lima)