Finding Cholita / Billie Jean Isbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Isbell, Billie Jean.

Series:

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium.

Interpretations of culture in the new millennium

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropologists--Fiction.

Anthropologists.

Human rights--Fiction.

Human rights.

Latin America--Fiction.

Latin America.

Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group)--Fiction.

Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla group).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Finding Cholita is fictionalized ethnography of the Ayacucho region of Peru covering a thirty-year period from the 1970s to today. It is a story of human tragedy resulting from the region's long history of discrimination, class oppression, and then the rise and fall of the communist organization Shining Path. The story's narrator, American anthropologist Dr. Alice Woodsley, attempts to locate her goddaughter, Cholita, who is known to have joined Shining Path and to have murdered her biological father, who fathered her through rape. Searching for Cholita, Woodsley devotes herself to documenting the stories of the countless Andean peasant women who were raped by soldiers, often going beyond witnessing as she helps the women relieve the pain of their sexual horror.

Contents:

Under the banquet table

The search begins

Memories of Lima

Larco Herrera

The autopsy

An encounter with the state

The prisons

The Rosetti nose

Romulo's letter

The dust of the ancestors

Through the puma door

The convocatorio

The cure

Finding Cholita.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-206).

ISBN:

9786613060006

9781283060004

1283060000

9780252091551

0252091558

OCLC:

785781244