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Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father
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Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader offer reflections on her life and discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father.
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Guatemalan indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu first came to international prominence following the 1983 publication of her memoir, I, Rigoberta Menchu, which chronicled in compelling detail the violence and misery that she and her people suffered during her country's brutal civil war. The book focused world attention on Guatemala and led to her being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. In 1999, a book by David Stoll challenged the veracity of key details in Menchu's account, generating a storm of controversy. Journalists and scholars squared off regarding whether Menchu had lied about her past and, if so, what that would mean about the larger truths revealed in her book. In The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy, Arturo Arias has assembled a casebook that offers a balanced perspective on the debate. The first section of this volume collects the primary documents -- newspaper articles, interviews, and official statements -- in which the debate raged, many translated into English for the first time. In the second section, a distinguished group of international scholars assesses the political, historical, and cultural contexts of the debate, and considers its implications for such issues as the 'culture wars', historical truth, and the politics of memory. Also included is a new essay by David Stoll in which he responds to his critics.
Rigoberta Menchu
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A new multicultural biography series for young readers that focuses on major achievements by women from around the world.Rigoberta Menchu And The Story Of All Poor Guatemalans
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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.
Teaching And Testimony
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Contains narratives of the experiences of teachers using the testimonial of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Includes background essays on Menchu and the role of her story in political correctness debates.
Haunting Violations
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Feminist critics place a premium on the 'real' stories told by the victimized and the oppressed. Haunting Violations offers a corrective to such uncritical acceptance of the 'real' in confessional, testimonial, and ethnographic narratives. Through close readings of a wide variety of texts, contributors argue that depictions of the 'real' are inherently performative, crafted within the limits and in the interests of specific personal, political, or social projects. Haunting Violations explores the inseparability of discourse and politics in quasi-autobiographical works such as I, Rigoberta Menchú and When Heaven and Earth Changed Places. Contributors consider how the Sri Lankan Mother's Front movement exploits the sanctity of the maternal and how multiple political purposes on both sides bleed through government 'documentary' photographs of Japanese-American concentration camp internees. This volume also investigates how South Asian feminists use the authority of their personal experience to critique the film Mississippi Masala and how realist narratives, such as Janet Campbell Hale's autobiographical Bloodlines, Margie Strosser's documentary film Rape Stories, and Shekur Kapur's film Bandit Queen, reexamine how assumptions about power and trauma are embedded in the promise of the real.
The Columbia Guide To The Latin American Novel Since 1945
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In this expertly crafted, richly detailed guide, Raymond Leslie Williams explores the cultural, political, and historical events that have shaped the Latin American and Caribbean novel since the end of World War II. In addition to works originally composed in English, Williams covers novels written in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Haitian Creole, and traces the profound influence of modernization, revolution, and democratization on the writing of this era. Beginning in 1945, Williams introduces major trends by region, including the Caribbean and U.S. Latino novel, the Mexican and Central American novel, the Andean novel, the Southern Cone novel, and the novel of Brazil. He discusses the rise of the modernist novel in the 1940s, led by Jorge Luis Borges's reaffirmation of the right of invention, and covers the advent of the postmodern generation of the 1990s in Brazil, the Generation of the 'Crack' in Mexico, and the McOndo generation in other parts of Latin America. An alphabetical guide offers biographies of authors, coverage of major topics, and brief introductions to individual novels. It also addresses such areas as women's writing, Afro-Latin American writing, and magic realism. The guide's final section includes an annotated bibliography of introductory studies on the Latin American and Caribbean novel, national literary traditions, and the work of individual authors. From early attempts to synthesize postcolonial concerns with modernist aesthetics to the current focus on urban violence and globalization, The Columbia Guide to the Latin American Novel Since 1945 presents a comprehensive, accessible portrait of a thoroughly diverse and complex branch of world literature.
Childhood And Postcolonization
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To care and educate our young children we must understand and listen to them. Childhood and (Post) Colonization opens the door to the effects of intellectual, education, and economic colonization of young children throughout the world.
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An Indian woman in Guatemala has described the experience of her race; we print an extract from her book.
I… Rigoberta Menchu is the testimony of a young Guatemalan Indian woman's struggle against the exploitation and repression of her race. It gives a picture of a whole way of life that has been silenced for centuries. Since the Spanish Conquest in the sixteenth century the Indian groups in Guatemala, who make up between 65% and 75% of the population, have not only been denied a share in power and in the decisions affecting their lives and future, but also seen their culture despised when it was not openly attacked, and had the language of their conquerors imposed on their 22 native languages.
As a result, the Indians have been forced into the remote corners of the country; but they have also sought to protect the secrets of their traditions and customs from the outside world. In her book, Rigoberta accepts the challenge of informing the outside world, confident that the Indian culture is both valuable and strong.
In 1984, the approximately four million descendants of the Mayan Indians are still facing the systematic destruction of their communities. Over the past five years, more than 300 villages have been destroyed, and as many as 15,000 Indians killed in massacres carried out by the army in the name of an anti-guerrilla war.
In the mid-seventies, mineral and oil deposits were found in the northern highlands of Guatemala, where the Indians had previously been protected by the fact that the lands were regarded as unproductive. Now it is being hailed as the ‘new frontier’, the key to Guatemala's economic future. Successive military regimes have imposed colonisation schemes to drive the Indians off the land. Where they have resisted, open terror has been used against them.
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Such unrelenting pressure on Indian lands is one of the factors that has led many Indians to begin in recent years to sympathise with Guatemala's armed opposition groups. Another may be the realisation, by 1980, that peaceful forms of protest against landowners and exploitation did not work. In May 1978, a peaceful demonstration by Kekchi Indians in Panzós, Alta Verapaz, was fired on by soldiers with a toll of 100 dead. This, and the Spanish Embassy massacre of 31 January 1980, when 39 people including Rigoberta's father and 22 other Indians were killed by security forces during a peaceful occupation of the building, seems to have been a turning point for Indian involvement in active opposition to the military government, adding a new political consciousness to the desire for survival. The military response has been escalating repression, seemingly deciding that ‘by definition, all Indians are guerrillas and must be killed’ (“Survival International, Witness to Genocide, 1983 p 13).
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Rigoberta's book gives a first-hand account of these atrocities, in which she has lost her mother, father, and one of her brothers. It also traces her growing realisation that the Indians' linguistic isolation and lack of familiarity with the practices of the dominant ladino (mixed race) culture in Guatemala compound her people's humiliation. Time and again she witnesses the impotence brought on by their inability to communicate in this oppressive world: ladino lawyers and interpreters pretend to help the Indians in the law courts but really deceive them, the Land Transformation Institute tricks them into signing papers they don't understand which leads them to forfeit their lands to the big landowners. They are tricked out of money in the markets, bullied in domestic service in the towns, exploited in near slave conditions on the sugar, coffee and cotton plantations of the coast.
Rigoberta's anger is fuelled by her growing awareness of the precarious nature of the Indians' lives. If they do not die from malnutrition as children, they die as young adults from overwork and disease, or suffer harassment, torture and death at the hands of the enemy.
Rigoberta takes a decisive step when she decides she must learn Spanish: ‘They've always said: poor Indians, they can't speak, so we must speak for them. I told myself, I must learn to speak Spanish so that we don't need intermediaries.’ Her intention is not to assimilate the ladino culture but to fight it. She is not advocating a racial struggle but recognition for her people and their basic rights: enough land to grow food on, the acceptance of their culture as different and valid, and the freedom to promote literacy and the oral traditions of Guatemala not only in Spanish but also in Quiché, Cakchiquel. Mam and any other of the 22 native languages.