Cherilyn Elston
Biographic Data
| ID | 4230192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cherilyn Elston |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cherilyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Elston |
| SIGNATURE | ELSTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0623-0187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spectres of Lost Futures
Colombian filmmaker Juan Soto has been read within recent scholarship as forming part of a significant new generation of filmmakers producing experimental works that counter dominant (extractive) representations of the country’s armed conflict. Soto’s experimental engagement with memory and his family’s own relationship to political violence are clearly on display in his 2017 film Parábola del retorno (Parable of the Return), which explores the e…
El acercamiento entre territorios
Esta entrevista surgió de un proyecto que busca conectar la literatura y cultura del Pacífico colombiano con otros territorios, liderado por el poeta y gestor cultural Jeferson Torres Guerrero. En la entrevista, Torres Guerrero, uno de los fundadores de la Corporación Cultural y Social Currulao y la Casa Editorial Étnica Imago, la primera editorial con enfoque étnico en Colombia, nos cuenta como fue el inicio de su trabajo en la gestión cultural,…
Left-wing melancholia and activist memories of the Colombian conflict in Fabiola Calvo Ocampo’s Hablarán de mí
Dialoguing with recent memory studies scholarship that has questioned the field’s predominant focus on violence, victimhood and trauma, this article explores the emergence of forms of memory in Colombia that alongside commemorating the armed conflict also incorporate positive memories of the past and memories of left activism. To do so, it analyses Colombian journalist and academic, Fabiola Calvo Ocampo’s testimonial text Hablarán de mí as a key …
Lily of the Valley
For days I wake at four in the morning when the birds are singing. Without moving I try to make out where I am. There are shapes of utensils and domestic objects. I try to recognise each one of the
Nunca Invisibles
As part of attempts to end more than half century of armed conflict, transitional justice and memory initiatives have proliferated in Colombia, providing recognition and redress to victims of violence. Yet, alongside the focus on victims, former insurgents in Colombia have also called for the inclusion of their own narratives of the conflict in public memory initiatives. Responding to recent memory studies scholarship, which has begun to reorient…
Women's Writing in Colombia
Nunca Invisibles
As part of attempts to end more than half century of armed conflict, transitional justice and memory initiatives have proliferated in Colombia, providing recognition and redress to victims of violence. Yet, alongside the focus on victims, former insurgents in Colombia have also called for the inclusion of their own narratives of the conflict in public memory initiatives. Responding to recent memory studies scholarship, which has begun to reorient…
Left-wing melancholia and activist memories of the Colombian conflict in Fabiola Calvo Ocampo’s Hablarán de mí
Dialoguing with recent memory studies scholarship that has questioned the field’s predominant focus on violence, victimhood and trauma, this article explores the emergence of forms of memory in Colombia that alongside commemorating the armed conflict also incorporate positive memories of the past and memories of left activism. To do so, it analyses Colombian journalist and academic, Fabiola Calvo Ocampo’s testimonial text Hablarán de mí as a key …
Women's Writing in Colombia
Lily of the Valley
For days I wake at four in the morning when the birds are singing. Without moving I try to make out where I am. There are shapes of utensils and domestic objects. I try to recognise each one of the
Nunca Invisibles
As part of attempts to end more than half century of armed conflict, transitional justice and memory initiatives have proliferated in Colombia, providing recognition and redress to victims of violence. Yet, alongside the focus on victims, former insurgents in Colombia have also called for the inclusion of their own narratives of the conflict in public memory initiatives. Responding to recent memory studies scholarship, which has begun to reorient…
Left-wing melancholia and activist memories of the Colombian conflict in Fabiola Calvo Ocampo’s Hablarán de mí
Dialoguing with recent memory studies scholarship that has questioned the field’s predominant focus on violence, victimhood and trauma, this article explores the emergence of forms of memory in Colombia that alongside commemorating the armed conflict also incorporate positive memories of the past and memories of left activism. To do so, it analyses Colombian journalist and academic, Fabiola Calvo Ocampo’s testimonial text Hablarán de mí as a key …
El acercamiento entre territorios
Esta entrevista surgió de un proyecto que busca conectar la literatura y cultura del Pacífico colombiano con otros territorios, liderado por el poeta y gestor cultural Jeferson Torres Guerrero. En la entrevista, Torres Guerrero, uno de los fundadores de la Corporación Cultural y Social Currulao y la Casa Editorial Étnica Imago, la primera editorial con enfoque étnico en Colombia, nos cuenta como fue el inicio de su trabajo en la gestión cultural,…
Spectres of Lost Futures
Colombian filmmaker Juan Soto has been read within recent scholarship as forming part of a significant new generation of filmmakers producing experimental works that counter dominant (extractive) representations of the country’s armed conflict. Soto’s experimental engagement with memory and his family’s own relationship to political violence are clearly on display in his 2017 film Parábola del retorno (Parable of the Return), which explores the e…
History (4 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Collective memory (2 works) · Conflict, Peace, and Violence in Colombia (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)