| Description |
xxi, 251, 1 unnumbered page ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Translation of: Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: page [252]. |
| Summary |
Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father. |
| Contents |
The family -- Birth ceremonies -- The nahual -- First visit to the finca. Life in the finca -- First visit to Guatemala City -- An eight-year-old agricultural worker -- Death of her little brother in the finca. Difficulty of communicating with other Indians -- Life in the Altiplano. Rigoberta's tenth birthday -- Ceremonies for sowing time and harvest. Relationship with the earth -- The natural world. The earth, mother of man -- Marriage ceremonies -- Life in the community -- Death of her friend by poisoning -- A maid in the capital -- Conflict with the landowners and the creation of the CUC -- Period of reflection on the road to follow -- Self-defence in the village -- The Bible and self-defence: the examples of Judith, Moses and David -- Attack on the village by the army -- The death of Doña Petrona Chona -- Farewell to the community: Rigoberta decides to learn Spanish -- The CUC comes out into the open -- Political activity in other communities. Contacts with ladinos -- The torture and death of her little brother, burnt alive in front of members of his family and the community -- Rigoberta's father dies in the occupation of the Spanish embassy. Peasants march to the capital -- Rigoberta talks about her father -- Kidnapping and death of Rigoberta's mother -- Death -- Fiestas and Indian queens -- Lessons taught her by her mother: Indian women and ladino women -- Women and political commitment. Rigoberta renounces marriage and motherhood -- Strike of agricultural workers and the first of May in the capital -- In hiding in the capital. Hunted by the army -- Exile. |
| Subject |
Menchú, Rigoberta.
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Quiché women -- Biography.
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Women revolutionaries -- Guatemala -- Biography.
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| Indexed Term |
Guatemala Mesoamerican Indians Social life - Personal observations |
| Added Author |
Burgos-Debray, Elisabeth.
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| Added Title |
Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Menchú, Rigoberta. Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú y así me nació la conciencia. English. I, Rigoberta Menchú London : Verso, c1984 (OCoLC)657027317 |
| ISBN |
0860917886 paperback |
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9780860917885 paperback |
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0860910830 |
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9780860910831 |
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