El Sendero Luminoso--The Shining Path--is Peru's long-standing Maoist
revolutionary group that has significantly shifted the entire landscape
of Peruvian political, social, and cultural life in fundamental ways.
Emerging from the fractured leftist movements of the 1960s, The Shining
Path has garnered world-wide attention as a unique, self-sufficient
revolutionary group. The focus of the bibliography is on major works
dealing with The Shining Path, articles and studies published in Latin
American and other related scholarly journals, and Peruvian books that
deal directly with the effects wrought by The Shining Path upon Peru.
Also included are titles that do not deal directly with The Shining Path
but discuss in depth the political context which nurtured the
development of revolutionary groups such as The Shining Path and MRTA
(Tupac Amaru), the Peruvian guerrilla group that captured world
attention in 1997 by holding the Japanese embassy hostage for months.
Approximately 1500 entries are included in this thorough bibliography.
Short annotations highlight important aspects of the source. The
bibliography is segmented into helpful subject areas that provide a
cohesive sphere of information concerning the intersections of The
Shining Path and Peruvian life, as well as interest in the revolutionary
movement abroad. A helpful index completes this work.
