Journey to Indo-América: APRA and the Transnational Politics of Exile, Persecution, and Solidarity, 1918–1945: 123 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 123)
Cambridge University Press, 8/12/2021
EAN 9781108838047, ISBN10: 1108838049
Hardcover, 257 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
The American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) was a Peruvian political party that played an important role in the development of the Latin American left during the first half of the 1900s. In Journey to Indo-América, GenevieÃŒve Dorais examines how and why the anti-imperialist project of APRA took root outside of Peru as well as how APRA's struggle for political survival in Peru shaped its transnational consciousness. Dorais convincingly argues that APRA's history can only be understood properly within this transnational framework, and through the collective efforts of transnational organization rather than through an exclusive emphasis on political figures like APRA leader, VÃÂctor Raúl Haya de la Torre. Tracing circuits of exile and solidarity through Latin America, the United States, and Europe, Dorais seeks to deepen our appreciation of APRA's ideological production through an exploration of the political context in which its project of hemispheric unity emerged.
Introduction
1. Crisis and regeneration
Peruvian students and Christian pacifists, 1918–1925
2. Coming of age in exile
VÃÂctor Raúl Haya de la Torre and the genesis of APRA, 1923–1931
3. 'Lo que escribo lo he visto con mis propios ojos'
Travels and foreign contacts as regime of authority, 1928–1931
4. Life and freedom for VÃÂctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
Surviving chaos in the Peruvian APRA Party, 1932–1933
5. Transnational solidarity networks in the era of the catacombs, 1933–1939
6. Indo-América looks north
Foreign allies and the inter-American community, 1933–1945
Conclusion.