![]() ![]() ![]() In this autobiography, Rigoberta Menchú details the two stages of her life: before political organizing, and after. Menchú eloquently delineates the conflicts between ladinos and Indians, landowners and peasants, the government and the resistance, men and women, and change and tradition. ![]() Supporters have insisted that the verisimilitude of her story extends from the commonality of her experience with that of other Guatemalan peasants, in fact, most Guatemalan peasants. Landowners spray pesticides on the fields while workers are present one of Menchs friends dies as a result, one of many who is killed by pesticide poisoning. Critics alleged that parts of Menchú’s story were exaggerated or untrue, some even pursuing years of fieldwork to prove their allegations. The voice of the Guatemalan peasants, which had been heretofore silenced by government oppression, illiteracy, and linguistic barriers, was now available to the global public, and Menchú’s narrative encompassed the story of oppressed people everywhere. The book imbued her work in organizing the Guatemalan peasantry with added authority and credibility. The 1984 testimony of Rigoberta Mench, 1992 Nobel Peace Laureat. When Menchú’s autobiography was first published in 1984, it catapulted her and her story, describing the exploitation and mistreatment of her people, to the forefront of international attention. disciplines including feminist studies, psychology, history, and literary and cultural. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala ![]()
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