Alberto Flores Galindo

Carlos Aguirre is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. He is the author or editor of numerous books on the history of slavery, prisons, intellectuals, and print culture, including the co-edited Las cartas del Boom (Alfaguara 2023).Charles Walker is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. His publications include The Tupac Amaru Rebellion (Harvard University Press 2016) and the graphic history Witness to the Age of Revolution (Oxford University Press 2020). He is finishing a book on the Shining Path.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionCarlos Aguirre and Charles Walker1 Between the Andean Utopia and the Socialist UtopiaCarlos Aguirre and Charles Walker1 Rethinking Mariátegui and Peruvian Marxism2 Andean Utopia as History and Memory3 Intellectual and Methodological Dialogues4 The Andean Utopia under Debate2 ‘More Than One Alternative’: Alberto Flores Galindo and Peru’s War of IndependenceCharles Walker1 Searching for New Paths2 Túpac Amaru3 Aristocracy, the Plebe, and Historians4 Searching and Searching5 More Than One Alternative3 Leftwing Political Culture and Print Culture in Contemporary Peru: The Making of a Public IntellectualCarlos Aguirre1 The Making of an Intellectual: Flores Galindo and the Generation of 19682 The Printed Word as an Intellectual Weapon3 Conclusion: The Public Intellectual and Print Culture4 ‘Theres Is No Happy Island’: Flores Galindo, Cuba, and the Socialist UtopiaCarlos Aguirre1 Latin American Intellectuals Respond to Reagan2 The 1986 Casa De Las Américas Prize3 Return Visit to Cuba4 (Re)Thinking the Revolution5 Friendship and Solidarity6 Conclusion5 ‘Historians Cannot Overlook the Present’: Alberto Flores Galindo on the Shining Path, Violence, and the 1980’s CrisisCharles Walker1 The Art of Doing Research and Writing Essays2 The Boiling Point3 The Silent War4 Debates, Controversies, and Polemics5 Time of Plagues6 Human Rights7 Conclusions6 A Requited Passion: Flores Galindo and LiteratureCarlos Aguirre1 A Passion for Reading2 Literature and the Historical Craft3 The Forging of a Style4 The Impossible Library5 Signs of a Bygone EraBibliographyIndex