An edition of Rigoberta Menchú and the story of all poor Guatemalans (1999)

Rigoberta Menchú and the story of all poor Guatemalans

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An edition of Rigoberta Menchú and the story of all poor Guatemalans (1999)

Rigoberta Menchú and the story of all poor Guatemalans

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This book is about a living legend, a young Guatemalan orphaned by government death squads who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was "the story of all poor Guatemalans." Published in the autobiographical I, Rigoberta Menchu, her words drew world attention to the atrocities of the Guatemalan army and propelled her to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize.

By comparing a cult text with local testimony, Stoll raises troubling questions about the rebirth of the sacred in post-modern academe. Far from being innocent or moral, he argues, organizing scholarship around simplistic images of victimhood can be used to rationalize the creation of more victims. In challenging the accuracy of a widely hailed account of Third World oppression, this book goes to the heart of contemporary debates over political correctness and identity politics.

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Westview Press
Language
English
Pages
336

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Subjects

Politics and government, Government relations, Civil rights, Ethnic relations, Quiché women, Mayas, Women human rights workers, Biography, Menchú, Rigoberta, Quiché women, Menchu, rigoberta, 1959-, Guatemala, history, Guatemala, economic conditions, Poor, latin america, Indians of central america, Guatemala, politics and government

People

Rigoberta Menchú

Places

Guatemala
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Rigoberta Menchú and the story of all poor Guatemalans
1999, Westview Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index.

Published in
Boulder, Colo

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
972.81/00497415, B
Library of Congress
F1465.2.Q5 M3885 1999, F1465.2.Q5M3885 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xix, 336 p. :
Number of pages
336

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL380612M
ISBN 10
0813335744, 0813336945
LCCN
98042832
OCLC/WorldCat
39812182
LibraryThing
564306
Goodreads
233295
4630007

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL1973759W

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