When Peruvian public intellectual José Carlos Agüero was a child, the government imprisoned and executed his parents, who were members of Shining Path. His memoir, originally published in Spanish in 2015, is translated into English for the first time by Michael Lazzara, professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies, and Charles Walker, professor of history. The Surrendered includes an editors' introduction, a timeline of Peru's armed conflict, and an interview with the author.

Charles Walker is Professor of History. He directed the Hemispheric Institute on the Americas at UC Davis for over a decade and was also the director of Global Centers for Latin America & the Caribbean (Global Affairs). He held the MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in International Human Rights from 2015-2020. He has published widely on Peruvian history, truth commissions, and historiography, in English and Spanish. His 2014 Harvard University Press book, The Tupac Amaru Rebellion, was named one of the best books of the year by the Financial Times and also won the Hundley Prize from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association. His Witness to the Age of Revolution has won awards in the United States and Peru and will be published in Quechua. 

Michael J. Lazzara is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture in the Spanish Department and affiliated faculty with Film Studies and the Program in Cultural Studies. His research focuses on contemporary Latin American artistic projects from the Southern Cone (Chile, Argentina), particularly those dealing with issues of dictatorship, democratic transition and traumatic memory.

He is currently developing courses on the “subjective turn” in recent Latin American documentary film and on representations of political violence and post-traumatic memory in Latin American cinema.

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