I Rigoberta Menchu

Author : Rigoberta Menchú
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860917885
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I, Rigoberta Menchú written by Rigoberta Menchú and published by Verso. This book was released on 1984 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechist work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. The anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, herself a Latin American woman, conducted a series of interviews with Rigoberta Menchu. The result is a book unique in contemporary literature which records the detail of everyday Indian life. Rigoberta’s gift for striking expression vividly conveys both the religious and superstitious beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman.

Author : Rigoberta Menchu
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844674827
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I, Rigoberta Menchu / Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? written by Rigoberta Menchu and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The set contains the source book by Menchú as well as Greg Grandin's investigation of the accusations against her. I, Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú: Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, aGuatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to manyIndian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice andhardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother weremurdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned tocatechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well asreligious commitment. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs ofher community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas.Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage andpassionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman. Who Is Rigoberta Menchú? by Greg Grandin: In 1984, Nobel Peace Prize–winner and indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú published I, Rigoberta Menchú, her autobiographical account of life in Guatemala under a military dictatorship to great acclaim. The book rapidly transformed the study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history. Since then, her memoir has increasingly become a target for rightwing historians and commentators seeking to discredit Menchú’s account and to deny the genocide carried out by the Guatemalan military regime with US support. Greg Grandin, in this crucial accompaniment to Menchú’s work, takes on her critics to set the story straight. He investigates the historical context and political realities that underlie Menchú’s past and the ongoing debate surrounding it, in this substantial new work on Guatemalan history.

Author : Rigoberta Menchú
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I, Rigoberta Menchú written by Rigoberta Menchú and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman."--Publisher description.

Author : Rigoberta Menchu
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844674711
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I, Rigoberta Menchu written by Rigoberta Menchu and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman.

Author : David Stoll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042996613X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans written by David Stoll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rigoberta Menchú is a living legend, a young woman who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was "the story of all poor Guatemalans." By turning herself into an everywoman, she became a powerful symbol for 500 years of indigenous resistance to colonialism. Her testimony, I, Rigoberta Menchú, denounced atrocities by the Guatemalan army and propelled her to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. But her story was not the eyewitness account that she claimed. In this hotly debated book, key points of which have been corroborated by the New York Times, David Stoll compares a cult text with local testimony from Rigoberta Menchú's hometown. His reconstruction of her story goes to the heart of debates over political correctness and identity politics and provides a dramatic illustration of the rebirth of the sacred in the postmodern academy. This expanded edition includes a new foreword from Elizabeth Burgos, the editor of I, Rigoberta Menchú, as well as a new afterword from Stoll, who discusses Rigoberta Menchú's recent bid for the Guatemalan presidency and addresses the many controversies and debates that have arisen since the book was first published.

Author : David Stoll
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 0813343968
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans written by David Stoll and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rigoberta Menchú is a living legend, a young woman who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was “the story of all poor Guatemalans.” By turning herself into an ever"

Author : Arturo Arias
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816636259
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy written by Arturo Arias and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guatemalan indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu first came to international prominence following the 1983 publication of her memoir, I, Rigoberta Menchu, which chronicled in compelling detail the violence and misery that she and her people suffered during her country's brutal civil war. The book focused world attention on Guatemala and led to her being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. In 1999, a book by David Stoll challenged the veracity of key details in Menchu's account, generating a storm of controversy. Journalists and scholars squared off regarding whether Menchu had lied about her past and, if so, what that would mean about the larger truths revealed in her book. In The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy, Arturo Arias has assembled a casebook that offers a balanced perspective on the debate. The first section of this volume collects the primary documents -- newspaper articles, interviews, and official statements -- in which the debate raged, many translated into English for the first time. In the second section, a distinguished group of international scholars assesses the political, historical, and cultural contexts of the debate, and considers its implications for such issues as the "culture wars", historical truth, and the politics of memory. Also included is a new essay by David Stoll in which he responds to his critics.

Author : Michael Silverstone
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 9781558611993
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rigoberta Menchu written by Michael Silverstone and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 1999 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new multicultural biography series for young readers that focuses on major achievements by women from around the world.

Author : Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journey for Peace written by Marlene Targ Brill and published by Dutton Juvenile. This book was released on 1996 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black-and-white illustrations and photos.

Author : Greg Grandin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1844674584
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? written by Greg Grandin and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchú published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography—I, Rigoberta Menchú—transformed the study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history and brought its author international renown. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. At that point, she became the target of historians seeking to discredit her testimony and deny US complicity in the genocidal policies of the Guatemalan regime. Told here is the story of an unlettered woman who became the spokesperson for her people and clashed with the intellectual apologists of the world’s most powerful nation. What happened to her autobiography speaks volumes about power, perception and race on the world stage. This critical companion to Menchú’s work will disabuse many readers of the lies that have been told about this courageous individual.