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MENCHU, RIGOBERTA; BURGOS-DEBRAY, ELISABETH (EDITOR & INTRODUCTION). ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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MENCHU, RIGOBERTA; BURGOS-DEBRAY, ELISABETH (EDITOR & INTRODUCTION). I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman In Guatemala.
Verson, London and New York: 1999. 0860917886 / 9780860917885 Twenty-sixth Printing. s Softcover. Good condition.
Recounts the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchu, a young Guatemalan peasant woman. Her story reflects the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America today. Rigoberta suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechist work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. The anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, herself a Latin American woman, conducted a series of interviews with Rigoberta Menchu. The result is a book unique in contemporary literatue which records the detail of everyday Indian life. Rigoberta's gift for striking expression vividlyconveys both the re3ligious and superstitious beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman. Winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. Translated into English from the Spanish by Ann Wright.
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13.50 USD
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