Women Writers, the Left, and Peru's Internal Armed Conflict.
This article considers the exclusion of most women-authored literature from the "Conflict Canon," a group of critically acclaimed and commercially successful literary works that have come to represent Peru's Internal Armed Conflict (~1980-2000) both nationally and internationally. Focusing on Carmen...
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Dec2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=190403698&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 190403698 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00349593 3BJ5 jtl: Revista Hispánica Moderna (0034-9593) issn: 00349593 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2025 vid: 78 iid: 2 pid: 4636 pub: University of Pennsylvania Press artinfo: ui: 190403698 10.1353/rhm.2025.a976986 ppf: 170 ppct: 19 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 305KB tig: atl: Women Writers, the Left, and Peru's Internal Armed Conflict. aug: au: Renker, Tess affil: Georgetown University su: Women authors Civil war Literature Novelists War stories Authors Peru sug: subj: Peru Women authors Civil war Literature Novelists War stories Authors keyword: Armed Conflict Feminism Latin America The Left Women Writers ab: This article considers the exclusion of most women-authored literature from the "Conflict Canon," a group of critically acclaimed and commercially successful literary works that have come to represent Peru's Internal Armed Conflict (~1980-2000) both nationally and internationally. Focusing on Carmen Ollé's Por qué hacen tanto ruido (1992), Silvia Miranda Lévano's Memorias de Manú (1997), and Karina Pacheco Medrano's No olvides nuestros nombres (2009), I trace how each novel not only narrativizes war against the grain but also sustains a meta-literary denunciation of their author's writerly conditions of (im)possibility. In each case, this denunciation involves a parallel critique, staged from the political Left, of male poets, intellectuals, and academics who espouse progressive, even revolutionary ideals while simultaneously muffling the voices of their women counterparts. An extension of this critique, I propose, is palpable in the novels' collective refusal to, on the one hand, adopt the gore-filled literary discourse of the Conflict Canon and, on the other hand, narrate 'traditional' forms of wartime violence. Across the article, I argue that the work of Ollé, Mirada Lévano, and Pacheco Medrano invite new theorizations of women's narrativization of war, both relative to the Peruvian context and beyond. At the same time, and particular to Peru, I propose that the novels speak to the stakes of maintaining literary-discursive status-quos, particularly considering the Andean nation's recent, Conflict-evoking experiences of socio-political crisis. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Revista Hispánica Moderna (0034-9593) is the property of University of Pennsylvania Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Revista Hispánica Moderna (0034-9593) holder: University of Pennsylvania Press dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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