David Stoll

Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429977213
• Artikelnr.: 56786483

Autorenporträt

David Stoll teaches anthropology at Middlebury College. His other books include Is Latin America Turning Protestant? and Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala.

Inhaltsangabe

The Story of All Poor Guatemalans
Vincente Mench And His Village
Uspantn as an Agricultural Frontier
The Struggle for Chimel
Popular Revolutionary War
Revolutionary Justice Comes to Uspantn
The Death of Petrocinio
The Massacre at the Spanish Embassy
Vicente Mench and the Committee for the Campesino Unity
Vicente Mench and the Guerrilla Army of the Poor
The Death of Juana Tum and the Destruction of Chimel
The Gulf Between Guerrilla Strategy and Popular Consciousness
The Death Squads in Uspantn
Vincentes Daughter and the Reinvention of Chimel
Where was Rigoberta?
Rigoberta Joins the Revolutionary Movement
The Construction of
I, Rigoberta Mench
Rigobertas Secret
The Campaign for the Nobel
The Lonely Life of a Nobel Laureate
Rigoberta and Redemption
The New Chimel
Rigoberta Leaves the Guerrilla Movement
Epitaph for an Eyewitness Account