Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Girlhood - Alicia Vásquez, María Vásquez, Wendy Ewald

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Magic Eyes: Scenes from an Andean Girlhood, Wendy Ewald from stories told by Alicia and María Vásquez, 1991, Colombia (United States), ORAL HISTORY

"...Despite the difficulty of daily life and her troubled relationships with her mother, with the villagers, and with men, Alicia achieves self-reliance and respect. Her move to the squatters' camps on the outskirts of Bogotá, followed by skirmishes with police and involvement with unions and cooperatives seen by the government as subversive, illuminates the government's inability to deal with the increasing urbanization of peasant societies in Colombia..."

(L.A., p. 298)