archives@tulane.edu / My dissertation, entitled “Hijas del horror: Rocío Silva Santisteban y Regina José Galindo. El testimonio como herramienta discursiva del arte de la memoria,” focuses on the representation of sexual violence in the poetry of Rocío Silva Santisteban and the performances of Regina José Galindo. I analyze the discursive tools that these artists use to represent violence in a way that allows the public or reader to engage with women’s point of view. Silva Santisteban as well as Galindo were inspired by the thousands of oral testimonies that women survivors told to the truth commission in Peru and Guatemala.
First chapter, “Crimes Against Women in the Armed Conflict in Guatemala and Peru,” is a review of the internal wars in Guatemala (1962-1996) and Peru (1980-2000), focusing especially on the crimes and consequences these wars had for women. Second chapter, “Theoretic Foundations of Sexual Violence Against Women: The Role of the Testimonies,” is a review of the different approaches that seek to explain the characteristic of sexual violence against women, why most of women doesn’t denounce it and which is the conception of women that is behind this violence expression. Third chapter, “Daughters of Horror or Experiencing Others’ Pain,” is a close reading of the most recent poetry book by Rocío Silva Santisteban, Las hijas del terror (2007), in which the author represents rape, forced displacement, and fear from the perspective of Peruvian women. I give special attention to the way testimonies inspired the book and are used as a poetic tool. Fourth chapter, “Regina José Galindo or the Body as Testifying to Pain,” is an analysis of two performance pieces –Mientras, ellos siguen libres (2007) and La verdad (2013)–, where Galindo represents the crimes suffered by women during the Guatemalan war. She places her body in the place of the female that suffered rape, torture, destruction, horror. I give special attention to the contradictions that the representation of violence can lead to, without intention, the perpetuation of violence, and the strategies that Galindo uses to avoid that misunderstanding. The fifth concluding chapter established a dialogue between these two artists. / 1 / Bethsabe Huaman Andia
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_89674 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Contributors | Huaman Andia, Bethsabe (author), Miller, Marilyn (Thesis advisor), School of Liberal Arts Latin American Studies (Degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | Spanish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | electronic, pages: 281 |
| Rights | No embargo, Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law. |
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