Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans: New Foreword by Elizabeth Burgos

by David Stoll

Book Overview

Rigoberta Mench 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 Mench , denounced atrocities by the Guatemalan army and propelled her to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. But her story was not the eyewitness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813343968
• ISBN13: 9780813343969
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"