Rigoberta Menchú
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| Title | : | I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala |
| Author | : | Rigoberta Menchú |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 252 pages |
| Published | : | July 17th 1985 by Verso (first published 1983) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. History. Biography |
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This book recounts the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú , a young Guatemalan peasant woman. 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.Specify Books Conducive To I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
| Original Title: | Rigoberta, la nieta de los mayas |
| ISBN: | 0860917886 (ISBN13: 9780860917885) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Guatemala |
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Rigoberta Menchu grew up in the Highlands of Guatemala and on the coffee and cotton plantations near the coast. When the landowners tried to take the peasant communities land away from them, Rigoberta's family became involved in organizing a way to protect the community. The Landowners were supported by the army and the government.Soon Rigoberta was involved in a much wider anti-government movement, to get better and consistent wages for the peasants. Her father was killed by the army, and herThis is a raw and powerful memoir of life as a member of the impoverished and exploited class. In 1983, a young indigenous Guatemalan woman narrated her story to an anthropologist. She tells of growing up in an isolated mountain community, so isolated that none spoke Spanish or another indigenous language. Illiterate, shoeless, often hungry, she tells of working from dawn to dusk to eke out a small crop, of working on coffee and cotton plantations under slave conditions, and of the gradual
I fully recognize that Menchu's voice--conversational, unpretentious, emphatic--is what draws most readers to I, Rigoberta Menchu. At the same time, I found it the most grating aspect of the book, full as it was of contradictions, superlatives, and simply repetitive insistences on the positive aspects of her culture and the crimes committed by her country during the Guatemalan Civil War. Which isn't to say, of course, that I don't think she has every right to tell this story; the crimes she
This book recounts the life of a remarkable young peasant woman who endeavoured through exteme hardships, to make a political commitment to bring change to the lives of the Guatemalan people. Her father, an activist, her hard working mother and a young brother were all tortured & murdered by the military. The descriptions of injustices suffered leave the reader forever scarred.Rigoberta learned Spanish so she would be able to tell her story. (one apparently common to most of the 23 Indian
I think this has been one of the more important books I've read. Menchu goes into detail about the struggles Guatamalan indigenous people experience and the colonizing powers that be. The beginning of the book details her culture while the middle and end discuss the horrors that she and others have experienced.
There is no way I'm rating this, ever
Reading through some of the reviews written by others, I've found that David Stoll's indictment of Menchu for not adhering to the "pure facts" is still alive and well in the academy. There seems to be a tendency to ignore some very important factors that lead to the creation of this book, particularly the genre, testimony, and the nature of memory itself.Testimony, or testimonio, is a literary genre that in many cases (although certainly not all) involves a testimoniante (one who testifies) and
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