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Chronicles the life a Quechua-speaking Indigenous woman in the remote Andean highlands during the civil war in Peru that killed seventy thousand and displaced hundreds of thousands more in the 1980s and 1990s. The book traces her early years as a young child living in an epicentre of violence to her contemporary life as a postwar survivor.

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. Graciela, the War, and Memory
  • Chapter One. A Time and Place of Tranquility
  • Chapter Two. Infiltration and Violence
  • Chapter Three. Living like Deer: Surviving on the Run
  • Chapter Four. Courtship and Capture
  • Chapter Five. Exploited Displacement
  • Chapter Six. Dislocated Motherhood in the Tropical Lowlands
  • Chapter Seven. An Altered Homecoming
  • Chapter Eight. Postwar Survival on the Margins
  • Conclusion. Remapping Personhood Postconflict
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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      Publisher: MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico
      Publication Date: 5/30/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780826363534, 978-0826363534
      ISBN10: 0826363539

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Chronicles the life a Quechua-speaking Indigenous woman in the remote Andean highlands during the civil war in Peru that killed seventy thousand and displaced hundreds of thousands more in the 1980s and 1990s. The book traces her early years as a young child living in an epicentre of violence to her contemporary life as a postwar survivor.

      Table of Contents
      • List of Illustrations
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction. Graciela, the War, and Memory
      • Chapter One. A Time and Place of Tranquility
      • Chapter Two. Infiltration and Violence
      • Chapter Three. Living like Deer: Surviving on the Run
      • Chapter Four. Courtship and Capture
      • Chapter Five. Exploited Displacement
      • Chapter Six. Dislocated Motherhood in the Tropical Lowlands
      • Chapter Seven. An Altered Homecoming
      • Chapter Eight. Postwar Survival on the Margins
      • Conclusion. Remapping Personhood Postconflict
      • Notes
      • References
      • Index

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