Title

Abram Calderón: Memoria y violencia para un líder Asháninka

Subject

Temporalities

Description

Page 1:
The page shows a small valley between two mountains, in shades of blue, at night. Clouds and a few stars touch the top of the mountain. In the centre of the page is a blue snake; geometric drawings in white ink are drawn on his body. Standing on top of the snake is a figure, with its back turned. He wears a tunic, with a woven band running horizontally across the tunic. He has a ribbon around his head with a feather, and in his right hand he holds a stick that is flowered with branches and leaves, and the blade of an axe tied at the top of the stick. On the left side at the middle height of the page, a box with text reads: "Legend has it that whenever our people need help or are aggrieved by the yoke of enslavement, Itomi Pavá will return to our land, with his shining sceptre, with which he extinguishes the stars, and will implant order and balance in our villages of the High Jungle."
In the lower left corner of the page, there is the figure of a man, drawn without fill colour, so the background looks white. The man has short straight hair, possibly greying, and some wrinkles on his forehead. He wears a turtleneck sweater. Out of his mouth comes a speech bubble that reads: "He did it a long time ago, when our brothers were enslaved and dispossessed of their land. He spoke with the men of the jungle and established his domains in the territory of the Great Grassland, exactly on the "Cerro de la Sal".
In the lower right corner of the page, a young woman, drawn in the same way as the man in the lower left corner described above, hears the man speak.

Page 2:
The page’s background is coloured in hues of blue. The right side of the page shows, over a background of white clouds, the man with the tunic holding a sceptre and standing on a snake, both of which are also portrayed in the other page described before. Now the serpent is in a raised position, high up to the clouds and above some tall trees. The man with the sceptre is standing on the head on the snake. Both man and snake are facing directly into four hands lined in white ink. Two hands are holding a bible and a bag of coins. Another hand is offering the coins to the man standing on the snake. The fourth hand is pointing at the man’s sceptre. In the ground, under big black trees, a group of silhouettes of adults and children also dressed in tunics, like the man with the sceptre, are peacefully relaxing and playing with nature and sitting or standing on the snakes’ lower body. In the middle right side of the page, a text frame reads: “They called him Juan Santos Atahualpa and at the beginning of evangelization in our jungle, he fought against the Spanish invaders and without having lost a single battle, he went to the hidden area of the Metraro, to educate men by teaching them to live in peace.”
Below, the right corner of the page shows the silhouettes of the elder man and the young woman also portrayed on the other page previously described. Speaking to the young woman, the man has a speech bubble saying: "In the year 1965, when my brother and I were studying the word of God and managing the shop at the Mission school, Itomi Pavá left the skies of the Metraro and came to Nevati."

Country

Peru

Format

Graphic novel

Nonfiction

Creator

James Becerra, 1973 [Script]

Sheila Alvarado, 1979 [Illustrator]

Link to social media

Sheila Alvarado: Instagram

Date

2021

Source

Link to electronic resource

Item Location

Biblioteca del Bicentenario de Perú, Ministerio de Cultura