Manuel Llamojha Mitma, Jaymie Patricia Heilman

Now Peru Is Mine

The Life and Times of a Campesino Activist

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Produktbeschreibung

Now Peru is Mine is the account of the life of Manuel Llamojha Mitma, one of Peru's most creative and inspiring indigenous political activists. His compelling life story covers nearly eight decades, providing a window into many key developments in Peru's tumultuous twentieth-century history and political mobilization in Cold War Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Narrating Native Histories
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9780822362388
• ISBN-10: 0822362384
• Artikelnr.: 44429760

Autorenporträt

Manuel Llamojha Mitma (1921-2016) was an indigenous political activist who formerly served as the head of the Peruvian Peasant Confederation from 1962 to 1978. Jaymie Patricia Heilman is Associate Professor of History and Classics at the University of Alberta and author of Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895–1980.

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Place  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction  1
1. "I'm Going to Be President of the Republic": The Formation of an
Activist, 1921-1948  19
2. "I Made the Hacendados Tremble": Defending Jhajhamarka Campesinos,
1948-1952  41
3. "Jail Was Like My Home": Fighting for Concepción, 1952-1961  65
4. For Justice, Land, and Liberty: National and International Leadership,
1961-1968  99
5. "Everything Was Division": Political Marginalization, 1968-1980  131
6. A Wound That Won't Heal: Political Violence, Displacement, and Loss,
1980-2000  153
Afterword. "You Have to Stand Firm": The Elderly Activist, 200-2015  175
Notes  189
Bibliography  217
Index  229