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Author Stoll, David, 1952-

Title Rigoberta Menchú and the story of all poor Guatemalans / David Stoll.

Publication Info. Boulder, CO : Westview ; London : Perseus Running [distributor], [2008]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  972.81 M536S    Check Shelf
Edition Expanded edition.
Description xxix, 352 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Note Previous ed.: 1999.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-342) and index.
Contents Story of all poor Guatemalans -- Vicente Menchu and his village: Uspantan as an agricultural frontier -- Struggle for Chimel -- Popular revolutionary war: Revolutionary justice comes to Uspantan -- Death of Petrocinio -- Massacre at the Spanish embassy -- Vicente Menchu and the Committee for Campesino Unity -- Vicente Menchu and the Guerrilla Army of the Poor -- Death of Juana Tum and the destruction of Chimel -- Death squads in Uspantan -- Vicente's daughter and the reinvention of Chimel: Where was Rigoberta? -- Rigoberta joins the revolutionary movement -- Construction of I, Rigoberta Menchu -- Rigoberta's secret -- Laureate goes home: Campaign for the Nobel -- Lonely life of a Nobel laureate -- Rigoberta and redemption -- New Chimel -- Rigoberta leaves the guerrilla movement -- Epitaph for an eyewitness account.
Subject Menchú, Rigoberta.
Quiché women -- Biography.
Women human rights workers -- Guatemala -- Biography.
Mayas -- Civil rights.
Mayas -- Guatemala -- Government relations.
Guatemala -- Ethnic relations.
Guatemala -- Politics and government.
ISBN 9780813343969 paperback
0813343968 paperback
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