La politica de las emociones en la narrativa del conflicto armado interno peruano (1980-2000) [electronic resource].

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During the 1980's Peru experienced a civil war that confronted the State, the Maoist Shining Path movement and civil society. In 2001, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formed and two years later in its report, it stated that almost 70, 000 people- mostly Quechua speaking peasants- had died. Drawing from affect theory and feminist and queer theory, my dissertation analyzes the politics of emotion in three novels that deal with the Peruvian Armed Conflict: La violencia del tiempo (1991) by Miguel Gutierrez (the voice of the leftist intellectual), Lituma en los Andes (1993) by Mario Vargas Llosa (the voice of the liberal intellectual) and Abril rojo (2006) by Santiago Roncagliolo (the voice of the cynical postmodern intellectual). Whilst portraying different "rational" projects they each demonstrate a common "politics of emotion", one that privileges rationality over vulnerability and attaches certain unpleasant or excessive feelings in the bodies of certain gendered or racially charged bodies. By focusing on emotions such as "shame", "melancholy" and " ressentiment" my dissertations shows how important is the intellectual analysis of emotions, as they illuminate various political projects of National Identity. Some of the key questions that arise are: What are the politically correct emotions of the National Body? How and why are emotions disciplined and negotiated as citizens? What is the connection of emotions and political economy? How to ask for the recognition of emotions in the public sphere?

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January 19, 2017

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2016.

Yale University.