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Rigoberta Menchú and the story of all poor Guatemalans / David Stoll.

Title
Rigoberta Menchú and the story of all poor Guatemalans / David Stoll.
Author
Stoll, David, 1952-
Publication
Boulder, CO : Westview ; London : Perseus Running [distributor], c2008.

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Description
xxix, 352 p. : maps; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Menchú, Rigoberta
  • Quiché women > Biography
  • Women human rights workers > Guatemala > Biography
  • Mayas > Civil rights
  • Mayas > Guatemala > Government relations
  • Guatemala > Ethnic relations
  • Guatemala > Politics and government
Genre/Form
Biographies
Note
  • Previous ed.: 1999.
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-342) and index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-342) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Story of all poor Guatemalans -- Vicente Menchu and his village: Uspantan as an agricultural frontier -- Struggle for Chimel -- Popular revolutionary war: Revolutionary justice comes to Uspantan -- Death of Petrocinio -- Massacre at the Spanish embassy -- Vicente Menchu and the Committee for Campesino Unity -- Vicente Menchu and the Guerrilla Army of the Poor -- Death of Juana Tum and the destruction of Chimel -- Death squads in Uspantan -- Vicente's daughter and the reinvention of Chimel: Where was Rigoberta? -- Rigoberta joins the revolutionary movement -- Construction of I, Rigoberta Menchu -- Rigoberta's secret -- Laureate goes home: Campaign for the Nobel -- Lonely life of a Nobel laureate -- Rigoberta and redemption -- New Chimel -- Rigoberta leaves the guerrilla movement -- Epitaph for an eyewitness account.
ISBN
  • 9780813343969 (pbk.)
  • 0813343968 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 190777382
  • SCSB-11365450
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library