%0 Journal Article
%T Memories Persist in Silence
%A Sandra Patricia Arenas Grisales
%J Universitas Human¨ªstica
%D 2012
%I Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
%X This article exposes the hypothesis that memory artifacts, created to commemorate the victims of armed conflict in Colombia, are an expression of the underground memories and a way of political action in the midst of war. We analyze three cases of creations of memory artifacts in Medell¨ªn, Colombia, as forms of suffering, perceiving and resisting the power of armed groups in Medell¨ªn. The silence, inherent in these objects, should not be treated as an absence of language, but as another form of expression of memory. Silence is a tactic used to overcome losses and reset everyday life in contexts of protracted violence.
%K Memories underground
%K Memories artifacts
%K Silence
%K Medell¨ªn
%K Colombia.
%U http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/univhumanistica/article/view/3647/3184