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Article: Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans.(Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- April 21, 1999
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Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans. By David Stoll. Westview, 336 pp., $27.00.
WHEN RIGOBERTA Menchu won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, many Guatemalans had never heard of her. Yet in the years leading up to the ceremony in Oslo, she had become well known abroad, mostly on the strength of her inspiring 1983 autobiographical testimony, I, Rigoberta Menchu. Based on a series of recorded conversations in Paris in 1982 with the leftist Venezuelan anthropologist Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, the book became a hit among solidarity activists and academics looking for a window into the life of an indigenous woman who had suffered at the hands of Latin ...
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