Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-31776-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 388 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stoll, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.