Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans

Author : David Stoll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429966132

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Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll Pdf

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
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131791142

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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll Pdf

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 : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367317761

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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll Pdf

Rigoberta Menchu 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 Menchu, denounced

Author : Rigoberta Menchu
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781844674718

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I, Rigoberta Menchu by Rigoberta Menchu Pdf

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 : Rigoberta Menchú
Publisher : Verso
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0860917886

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I, Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú Pdf

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 : Arturo Arias,David Stoll
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0816636257

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The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy by Arturo Arias,David Stoll Pdf

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 : Arturo Arias,David Stoll
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816636265

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The Rigoberta Menchú Controversy by Arturo Arias,David Stoll Pdf

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 : María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno,Daisy Rubiera Castillo
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0822325934

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Reyita by María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno,Daisy Rubiera Castillo Pdf

Assisted by her daughter, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, the author recounts her life as a black woman struggling with prejudice and change in Cuba over the span of 90 years. Known as "Reyita", Maria de Los Reyes Castillo Bueno starts her story with the abduction of her grandmother by slave traders and shares her own experiences as a mother, laborer, and revolutionary.

Author : Marlene Targ Brill
Publisher : Dutton Juvenile
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173004703368

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Journey for Peace by Marlene Targ Brill Pdf

Black-and-white illustrations and photos.

Author : Heather Lehr Wagner
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781438146454

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Rigoberta Menchú Tum by Heather Lehr Wagner Pdf

Describes the life and work of Rigoberta Menchú Tum, an Mayan from Guatemala who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992.

Author : Greg Grandin
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844674589

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Who Is Rigoberta Menchu? by Greg Grandin Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Wilkinson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0822333686

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Silence on the Mountain by Daniel Wilkinson Pdf

Written by a young human rights worker, "Silence on the Mountain" is a virtuoso work of reporting and a masterfully plotted narrative tracing the history of Guatemala's 36-year internal war, a conflict that claimed the lives of more than 200,000 people.

Author : David Stoll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442220683

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El Norte Or Bust by David Stoll Pdf

Debt is the hidden engine driving undocumented migration to the United States. So argues David Stoll in this powerful chronicle of migrants, moneylenders, and swindlers in the Guatemalan highlands, one of the locales that, collectively, are sending millions of Latin Americans north in search of higher wages. As an anthropologist, Stoll has witnessed the Ixil Mayas of Nebaj grow in numbers, run out of land, and struggle to find employment. Aid agencies have provided microcredits to turn the Nebajenses into entrepreneurs, but credit alone cannot boost productivity in crowded mountain valleys, which is why many recipients have invested the loans in smuggling themselves to the United States. Back home, their remittances have inflated the price of land so high that only migrants can afford to buy it. Thus, more Nebajenses have felt obliged to borrow the large sums needed to go north. So many have done so that, even before the Great Recession hit the U.S. in 2008, many were unable to find enough work to pay back their loans, triggering a financial crash back home. Now migrants and their families are losing the land and homes they have pledged as collateral. Chain migration, moneylending, and large families, Stoll proposes, have turned into pyramid schemes in which the poor transfer risk and loss to their near and dear.

Author : Betsy Konefal
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Guatemala
ISBN : 9780826348654

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For Every Indio who Falls by Betsy Konefal Pdf

By following indigenous organizing experiences at multiple levels--local, regional, national, and international--this book explores how some Mayas became involved in political activism and opposition to a repressive state.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410349064

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A Study Guide for Rigoberta Menchu's "I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf