Conflicted Memory

Cynthia E. Milton is the Canada Research Chair in Latin American History at the Université de Montréal. She is the editor of Art from a Fractured Past: Memory and Truth-telling in Post–Shining Path Peru. Her coedited works include The Art of Truth-Telling about Authoritarian Rule and Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places.

Brings to light how military 'entrepreneurs of memory' strategically place memory products in a memory marketplace. A major intervention in debates about Peru's internal armed conflict of the 1980s and '90s and its aftermath, which will interest scholars in many disciplines and regions."" - Paulo Drinot, coeditor of Comics and Memory in Latin America""Impressively documents the military's diverse interventions in Peru's culture - memoirs, 'truth' reports, films, novels, and memorials - and its numerous attempts to censor cultural productions that challenge its preferred narrative."" - Jo-Marie Burt, George Mason University