This brief selection of works by Peruvian historian and essayist Alberto Flores Galindo (1949–90) is designed to make his incisive, engaged, and elegant writing accessible to the broader Spanish-speaking world. After the ongoing publication of his complete works in Peru and the impending publication of his masterpiece (Buscando un Inca) in English, the volume confirms Flores Galindo’s stature as one of the most important progressive intellectuals of the late twentieth century in Peru, and perhaps in all of South America.
For this, Magdalena Chocano (a student and research assistant of Tito’s during the mid-1980s and now an accomplished historian in her own right) selected chapters and essays written or published between 1980 and 1989. During this last decade of his life, Tito broadened his earlier structuralist-Marxist approach to focus on ideas, mentalities, utopia and myth, racism, conflicting political projects, and power. As the title suggests, the editor wanted...
