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Author Kellet, Nicole Coffey, author

Title Graciela : one woman's story of war, survival, and perseverance in the Peruvian Andes / Nicole Coffey Kellett with Graciela Orihuela Rocha
Published Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : maps, illustrations
Contents Introduction. Graciela, the war, and memory -- A time and place of tranquility -- Infiltration and violence -- Living like deer: surviving on the run -- Courtship and capture -- Exploited displacement -- Dislocated motherhood in the tropical lowlands -- An altered homecoming -- Postwar survival on the margins -- Conclusion. Remapping personhood postconflict
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed August 24, 2022)
Subject Orihuela Rocha, Graciela.
Quiché women -- Peru -- Biography -- 20th century
Indigenous women -- Peru -- History -- 20th century
Women and war -- Peru -- History -- 20th century
Indigenous women.
Politics and government.
Quiché women.
Social conditions.
Women and war.
SUBJECT Peru -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004876
Peru -- Social conditions -- 1968- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85100234
Subject Peru.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Ethnographies.
History.
Biographies.
Ethnographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Orihuela Rocha, Graciela, author.
ISBN 0826363547
9780826363541