El conflicto interno en Perú a través de cómics
October 20, 2017
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Please join us for a presentation with author Jesús Cossío on his work on community memory through graphic narrative.
Author of Barbarie: Cómics sobre la ciolencia política 1985-1990 (2010), Los años del terror (2016) and co-author of Rupay: Historias Gráficas sobre la Violencia Política 1980-1984 (2008), Biopolítica para principiantes (2012), and Guerilla en Paucartambo (2013), Cossio is celebrated as one of the foremost creators of documentary, testimonial and journalistic comics in contemporary Latin America. Much of his work revolves around testimony surrounding the atrocities committed during the violent period of internal conflict between 1980-2000 in Peru, for which he was a recipient of a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities. Also the author of webcomics La guerra por el agua, Mala onda, and Las increíbles aventuras del hombre que no se hacía dramas, Cossio has given invited talks thoroughout Peru, as well as in Bolivia, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and the United States. Since 2013, he has been working through a branch of the Peruvian Ministry of Justice to offer workshops on narrating community memory through graphic narratives in areas most directly affected by the violence that occurred during the internal conflict.
Date posted
Jun 23, 2020
Date updated
Sep 25, 2020