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Graciela : One Woman's Story of War, Survival, and Perseverance in the Peruvian Andes / Nicole Coffey Kellett ; with Graciela Orihuela Rocha.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kellett, Nicole Coffey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Quechua women--Peru--Biography.
- Quechua women.
- War victims--Peru--Ayachucho--Biography.
- War victims.
- Orihuela Rocha, Graciela.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque, New Mexico : University of New Mexico Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Graciela chronicles the life of a Quechua-speaking Indigenous woman in the remote Andean highlands during the war in Peru that killed seventy thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands more in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Graciela, the War, and Memory
- Chapter 1. A Time and Place of Tranquility
- Chapter 2. Infiltration and Violence
- Chapter 3. Living like Deer: Surviving on the Run
- Chapter 4. Courtship and Capture
- Chapter 5. Exploited Displacement
- Chapter 6. Dislocated Motherhood in the Tropical Lowlands
- Chapter 7. An Altered Homecoming
- Chapter 8. Postwar Survival on the Margins
- Conclusion: Remapping Personhood Postconflict
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780826363541
- 0826363547
- OCLC:
- 1309031076
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