Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans : New Foreword by Elizabeth Burgos

Stoll, David

Routledge（2019/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 388 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780367317768
• DDC分類 972.8100497415

Full Description

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

Contents

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