Research Catalog

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