My Life as a Colombian Revolutionary: Reflections of a Former Guerrillera - Softcover

Vasquez Perdomo, Maria Eugenia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592131018 ISBN 13: 9781592131013

Publisher: Temple University Press, 2005

Synopsis

In My Life as a Revolutionary, Maria Eugenia Vasquez Perdomo presents a gripping account of her experiences as a member of M-19, one of the most successful guerrilla movements in Colombia's tumultuous modern history. Vasquez's remarkable story opens with her happy childhood in a middle-class provincial household in which she was encouraged to be adventurous and inquisitive. As an eighteen-year-old university student in Bogota, Maria Eugenia embraced radical politics and committed herself to militant action to rid her country of an abusive government. operations in the 1970s and 1980s and became one of its leaders. She was able to avoid detection for nearly twenty years in the movement because she was both clever and considered too attractive to be a guerrillera. Her vivid narrative brings to life the men and women who were her comrades and conveys their anxiety and exhilaration as they carried out their actions. When she tells of her love affairs with some of M-19's top leaders, she cannot separate romance from camaraderie or escape a sense of impending tragedy. guerrilla movement in a Latin American country, this would be a book well worth reading. But she also gives us an unsparing analysis of what it meant to be a woman in the movement and how much her commitment to radical politics cost her.

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From the Publisher

A gripping memoir of a woman who left middle-class life to become a member of a Colombian militant group

About the Author

María Eugenia Vásquez Perdomo is Director, Fundación Mujer y Futuro (NGO: Woman and Future Foundation), working in coordination with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on the project "Mujer y Derechos" (Women and Rights), which serves women forcibly displaced by the armed conflict. The Spanish-language edition of this book, published as Escrito para no morir, was awarded the Colombian National Prize for Testimonial Literature in 1998.

Lorena Terando is Assistant Professor of Translation at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

About this edition

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1592131018
• ISBN 13: 9781592131013
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328