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The Internal War in Peru (1980-2000) had as its political actors the Peruvian army and police forces against the self-called guerrilla groups Sendero Luminoso (SL) and the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) that sought to destabilize the institutional order. One of the…

This dissertation project examines the symbol of an art object which represents a corpse or dead person’s identity, what I call the abject d’art, as it appears in fin de siècle (late nineteenth century) supernatural fiction by Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and is used in order to id…

Legend’s shape the culture around them in powerful ways by giving us the language to express ideas often hushed or unexplored by history. Ghost stories in particular are crucial to community identity formation, alerting the modern audience to a gap in our understanding of the pa…