Rupay by Judah Rubin - ISBN: 9781644215388
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Peru ablaze: a graphic novel of revolution, violence, and forgotten victims.
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Rupay

A Graphic History Of Political Violence In Peru

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    176 pages

  • Release Date

    22 December 2026

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Summary

One of the bloodiest and longest-lasting revolutionary movements in Latin America, described in graphic form.

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 19…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781644215388
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:241mm x 171mm
About The Author

Judah Rubin

JESeS COSS O 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, Panico, 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 graficas sobre la violencia politica 1980-1984 and its subsequent volume Barbarie- C mics sobre la violencia politica 1985-1990.

Writer, curator, and art historian ALFREDO VILLAR is the author of Papa huayco (2024), Yawar chicha- los rios profundos de la mosica tropical peruana (2024), and Bomm! Historieta y humor grafico en el Pero- 1978-1992 (2015). He was awarded a 2004 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities, alongside Jesos Cossio Guevara, for the research and co-writing of Rupay- Historias graficas sobre la violencia politica 1980-1984.

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