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Alexandra Hibbett

Alexandra Hibbett teaches Spanish-American literature, literary theory, and cultural studies at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She is currently writing a book on cultural memory in recent Peruvian narrative. She is coeditor of Dando cuenta: estudios sobre testimonios de la violencia política (2016) and coauthor of Contra el sueño de los justos: la literatura peruana ante la violencia política (2009). icon

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Failed Fathers, Failed States

By Alexandra Hibbett

In 1992, 12 years after the Shining Path commenced their terrorist activities in the Peruvian Andean highlands with a view to overthrowing the state as well as the ...

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