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| Welcome to Westview Press, a leading publisher of best-selling undergraduate and graduate textbooks. | | | Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans by David Stoll
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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.
David Stoll's 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 afterword from Stoll, who discusses Rigoberta Menchú's recent bid for the Guatemalan presidency ... More
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