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Working Lives: Artistic Solidarity In Revolutionary Peru (1960–1980), Jose R. Chavarry
Working Lives: Artistic Solidarity In Revolutionary Peru (1960–1980), Jose R. Chavarry
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This dissertation examines the discourses and experiences of cultural work as a form of intellectual and artistic solidarity in Peru during the 1960s and 1970s. Amid the broader Latin American and global spirit of revolution, anti-imperialism and Third World liberation, in Peru these decades saw a radical transformation in society where rural and urban masses rose against a traditional political and socioeconomic system that maintained colonial structures of domination and oppression of marginalized populations. In an attempt to rein in this desborde popular, as it became known, the nationalist and populist Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces and a …