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Article: I ... Rigoberta Menchu: an Indian woman in Guatemala.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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RECENT newspaper reports have called into question the veracity of I... Rigoberta Menchu, the autobiography of the Guatemalan activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner. A Harvard Professor has claimed that she conflated events, claimed as her own story things that happened to others and portrayed what was essentially a feud between families as an attack by the military on the peasant communities. In a sense, given the vagaries of oral history and the bloody and complex nature of the Guatemalan people's struggle, it is surprising that it has taken 17 years for the ideological witch-hunt that is American academia to turn its attention to Rigoberta Menchu.
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