I, Rigoberta Menchú : : an Indian Woman in Guatemala

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Call Number: 972.81 Me
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Translation of: Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia.
"1992 Nobel peace prize winner"--Cover.

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Humbling and Beautiful - Read This submitted by dwick on June 26, 2023, 10:59am Beautiful, but terrible. This is the story of Rigoberta Menchu Tum and her life as a native Guatemalan struggling to survive amidst poverty, encroaching industrial logging interests, political corruption, and racism. Born to a family of subsistence farmers and itinerant workers, Menchu’s life was balanced on the razor’s edge of starvation. She saw family members lose their lives from hunger and from the brutal treatment received from supervisors at the coastal farms (including spraying pesticides from airplanes with complete disregard to the workers--and children!--laboring in the fields). Menchu survived and learned Spanish in order serve as an advocate for other native people. She helped to form and organize parties of political resistance as well as taught native people methods of self defense. The style of the writing is perhaps what proves to be most captivating about the book. Having learned to write in Spanish only three years before penning this book, Menchu’s style is simple, frank, and honest. The translator has taken pains to retain the vocabulary and style of the original text even including much of Menchu’s repetition. This lends the text a raw, journalistic feel.