Post-Memory of Political-Cultural Violence Trauma in two movies form Peru´s Countryside

Abstract

In this article, three peruvian movies that implicitly deal with political violence are
examined (Pishtaco, Qarqacha y El misterio del Kharisiri) depict different situations in
which a mythical creature is resemanticized in the Peruvian internal conflict (1980-
2000) and in violence, generally, as a radical otherness. Hence, I want to examine
how postmemory mechanisms about the cultural and political violence in Andean
Ayacucho are proposed in specific Andean myths, which are not limited to a recent
traumatic event, but can be dated back to colonial times. Re-appropriation of these
myths serves as a mechanism to produce narratives of these traumatic events, and thus
construct memory from a marginal perspective.