Cabel, Garcia
(2018)
LA DESFAMILIARIZACIÓN DEL OTRO Y DEL UNO
PARA REPENSAR LA VIOLENCIA Y LA INDIGENEIDAD AMAZÓNICA PERUANA.
Doctoral Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
This research examines the persistence of violence towards indigenous Amazonians of Peru through this century. My analysis of the deep relationship between violence and invisibilization leads me to propose “defamiliarization” as a possible path to stop the violence against Amazonians. I contend that Amazonian violence has two basic forms: spectacular and everyday. The former consists of dramatic instances of open strife, like the Baguazo, an event that I analyze through three texts: a Sentencia, a testimony, and several interviews with the indigenous leader Santiago Manuim. I examine the latter, “everyday violence,” which describes general political indifference to the region through several communiqués from indigenous organizations, interviews with their leaders, and an analysis of The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa. I contend that the root of both forms of violence lies in “invisibilization,” and by that I mean two seemingly opposed but reinforcing facts. On the one hand, the Amazonians are invisible to the rest of Peru, since they are largely absent from national history and literature. On the other hand, these absences facilitate the government's “hyper-visualization” of Amazonians. By “hyper-visualization,” I refer to the ubiquitous circulation of the image of Amazonians through tourist campaigns that misrepresent and stereotype them. The very limited research that exists casts Amazonians as victims, contributing to their invisibilization through the obliteration of their voice. In that regard, I develop the concept “forestism” to analyze the complex
forms of making them invisibile. This dissertation seeks to challenge the aforementioned landscape by fleshing out the heterogeneous panorama of both forms of violence, as well as the diverse strategies employed by the Indians to confront them. Each chapter is a particular path to examine Amazonian peoples’ —agency—their own ways of making sense of their invisibility, and their own strategies for denouncing and confronting it, including irony, humor, and armed violence.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Date: |
31 January 2018 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
7 December 2017 |
| Approval Date: |
31 January 2018 |
| Submission Date: |
3 January 2018 |
| Access Restriction: |
No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately. |
| Number of Pages: |
409 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Hispanic Languages and Literatures |
| Degree: |
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy |
| Thesis Type: |
Doctoral Dissertation |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Violence, Peru, Amazonia, indigeneity, Baguazo, forestism, irony |
| Date Deposited: |
31 Jan 2018 15:41 |
| Last Modified: |
31 Jan 2018 15:41 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/33675 |
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