Rupay
A Graphic History Of Political Violence In Peru
$57.75
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
22 December 2026
Summary
“Rupay,” in Quechua, means ardor, fire. On May 17th, 1980, the Shining Path, a Maoist group in Peru, burned the electoral records in a small town in the Ayacucho region to ignite the revolution that would set all of Peru aflame. This graphic novel retells the events relating to the start of the conflict, between 1980 and 1984, and the political violence that continued through 1990. Cossio Guevara charts the first subversive acts by the Shining Path, the government response, the escalation of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644215388 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644215381 |
| Author: | Judah Rubin, Jesus Cossio Guevara |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 22 December 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 171mm x 241mm |
Judah Rubin
Jesús Cossío Guevara is a Peruvian illustrator, author, and editor of comic books and graphic novels. He has published numerous books and zines, including El cerdo volador, Pánico, Juventud moderna, and Ciudades convertidas en selvas. In 2003, Cossio was awarded a Rockfeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, which he used, in part, to complete the graphic novel Rupay: Historias gráficas sobre la violencia política 1980–1984 and its subsequent volume Barbarie: Cómics sobre la violencia política 1985–1990.
Writer, curator, and art historian Alfredo Villar is the author of Papá huayco (2024), Yawar chicha: los ríos profundos de la música tropical peruana (2024), and Bumm! Historieta y humor gráfico en el Perú: 1978–1992 (2015). He was awarded a 2004 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, alongside Jesús Cossío Guevara, for the research and co-writing of Rupay: Historias gráficas sobre la violencia política 1980–1984.
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