Abstract

RAMOS-PEREZ, Juan Carlos. Hegemony and Subalternity of Memory. Analysis of the Memorial Account of the Monument to the Heroes of Sumapaz. Folios [online]. 2023, n.57, pp.131-146.  Epub June 01, 2023. ISSN 0123-4870.  https://doi.org/10.17227/folios.57-13752.

This article for reflection analyzes the monument, as a cultural device for the reconstruction and interpretation of the past, situated between public art and political memory. Giving the past a memorial form is intended to eternalize a certain type of historical account. However, from a critical perspective, it is important to keep in mind that monuments are built social contexts and are not conditioned by the historical realities of the moment. The article proposes to decipher these contexts and conditions in relation to the Monument to the Heroes of Sumapaz analyzing its official account of the past and contrasting the dissident history that has characterized this region of Colombia. Methodologically the analysis of the monument is proposed from three levels: the historical reconstruction that allows a critical understanding, the symbolic interpretation that observes the aesthetic proposal, and the definition of the different interpretations of the past that fight for memory. The results indicate the contrast between the heroic narrative promoted by the state institutions that makes the local memory of peasant resistance invisible, which is folded over its own remembrance practices based on orality and community cohesion.

Keywords : Social conflict; contemporary history; social movement; collective memory; historical monument.

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