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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Paperback – Illustrated, January 12, 2010

by Rigoberta Menchu (Author), Elisabeth Burgos-Debray (Editor), Ann Wright (Translator)
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A Nobel Peace Prize winner reflects on poverty, injustice, and the struggles of Mayan communities in Guatemala, offering “a fascinating and moving description of the culture of an entire people” (The Times)
 
Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman.
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“A moving account of gruesome repression, gut-wrenching poverty and vicious racism ... A call to conscience.”—Nation

“A fascinating and moving description of the culture of an entire people.”—Times (London)

“A cornerstone of the multicultural canon.”—Chronicle of Higher Education

“An extraordinary document.”—Francis Sejersted, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

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Rigoberta Menchú received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her efforts to end the oppression of indigenous peoples in Guatemala.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso; Second Edition (January 12, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1844674185
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844674183
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.9 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.52 x 0.78 x 8.26 inches
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Daryl
5.0 out of 5 stars The story of a.wise and courageous woman
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2022
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I lived in Guatemala for about a year. My only regret is that I didn't read this book first. Fear of the military was spread to the expat community. Because we knew no indigenous people that also spoke Spanish we didn't understand the Mayan culture. The strength of the indigenous people was evident every day. I was horrified to see the tiny women and men who strapped wood, water and other things to their heads while they walked barefoot and had babies on their back while walking long distances barefoot. The nobility of the Guatemalan Mayan communities was obvious and the treatment they received at the hands of the ladinos was truly horrible. The banks had cat walks with soldiers pointing guns at the customers. The poor Mayans could stand in line for long periods of time because whenever a ladino came in they jumped the line in front of the poor Mayans. Guatemala is a truly beautiful country marred by the racist behaviors of the ladino population. This book really touched me and it is obvious why Rigoberta received a Nobel Prize. Her wisdom,intelligence and courage is an inspiration. It's one of the best books I've ever read....and I read 2 or 3 books a week. She is inspirational.
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Patrick F
5.0 out of 5 stars Brutal Honesty on the Dismantaling of a Beautiful Culture
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2019
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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.

I enjoyed reading this book. Though some of the political tensions and actions may have been beyond my grasp, I thoroughly enjoyed learning about Menchu’s native customs and beliefs. The book starts with an explanation of her tribe’s birth, marriage, and death ceremonies. These underscore the close bonds of community that exist throughout the village--bonds that are tragically torn asunder as the book progresses. While the text has a clear bias, it was nonetheless quite eye opening to the difficulties natives of Guatemala faced and sheds light on an all too easy to overlook population.

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bob spires
4.0 out of 5 stars Super interesting and with some controversy to boot
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2023
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Worth it, plus the controversy surrounding the book makes you have to really contemplate narrative and memory and speaking for a whole people's experience
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Michelle
5.0 out of 5 stars Humbling and beautiful
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2021
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This story will inspire you and make you take a good, hard look at just how fortunate most of us are who live in the United States. We can never truly know the experiences of another unless we walk in their shoes. Rigoberta Menchu will take you places that will disturb and enlighten. I have been fascinated with Guatemala and its Mayan people and because of this book, look at life a little differently now. If you have a passion for learning about other cultures, this is a must read.
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Barbara
5.0 out of 5 stars The book was excellent. I travel and stay in Guatemala every year ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2017
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The book was excellent. I travel and stay in Guatemala every year for about a month. I have a sister who also lives on the Rio Dulce. The book gave me a real insight into the lives of the Mayan people who I find to be very peaceful, gentle people. I am saddened by the hardship they have had to endure. A must read for those who visit the country.
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Climate Artivist
5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful first-person narrative of poverty and injustice
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2017
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I’ve been non-stop reading this book about the remarkable yet humble indigenous woman, who emerged out of oppressive poverty and ethnic discrimination by educating and empowering herself, and eventually won the Nobel Peace Prize. It is hard to put the book down once you have opened it. It makes you aware and makes you cringe at the hardships, injustices and the layers of oppression against the hardworking and less educated poor, not only in Guatemala but also elsewhere in the world. I highly recommend this book, especially for those of us who want to learn about poverty from the “worm’s eye view” (i.e., first-person narratives, in addition to from the “bird’s eye view” of statistical analyses — both are very important).
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3.0 out of 5 stars Considering this book as the genre of "Testimonio" in Latin American Literature
Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2015
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It's a good book that describes the struggles of the Mayan population in Guatemala. It is best to read in conjunction with different articles that criticize this book and also the foreword. This was not written by Rigoberta and it is important to consider the politics of translation as well as transcription. She gave her testimony to Elizabeth Burgos, who collected the information from the interview in Spanish and created the text. At the time when Rigoberta gave her testimony, she only had been speaking Spanish for three years.

I read this for one of my college classes at Princeton and I just discussed this book at my book club.

Another thing to consider is the genre that this book falls in. It is not a memoir or an autobiography. It falls under the category of latin american literature known as tesimonio. This differs from the direct translation of testimony. I recommend readers do some research on the politics of testimonio and whether or not all that is said is needed to be true.

It is a great book to start a conversation on the politics of ethnicity and whether books like these are needed to be entirely truthful or factual!
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Cristina Danila
5.0 out of 5 stars Now this is a book
Reviewed in the Netherlands on March 5, 2020
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What a revelation! You get to find out the terrible things the Indians in Guatemala have gone through and the mental resistance and heart that they fight back with. Incredible vivid snaps of their culture, traditions about love, death, baptism....Rigoberta is one of my heroes now and she will always be.
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BCReader
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for people interested in womens' narratives and Guatemalan history.
Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2017
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Superb expose of Guatemala's horrific times.
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Srirupa Mitra
5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD BOOK
Reviewed in India on January 18, 2018
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Trish
5.0 out of 5 stars A 'Must Read' if you are thinking of visiting Guatemala
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2010
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This book was recommended reading by the tour company we are going to Guatemala with, so I thought it would be a good insight into the ways of the indigenous people of Guatemala as we are visiting many of the villages on our trip. Yes, I think it's helped me a lot preparing for the trip but more importantly it's a wonderful story, beautifully written, about the life of one woman and one HUGE EYE OPENER!!. I couldn't put it down and as I came towards the end of the book I stayed up until three in the morning because I needed to finish the story. If there is one small criticism I think that as the book was written a few years ago now, it would have been nice to have a footnote to say if Rigoberta is still alive, in Guatemala, or what has happened in the intervening years.
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kate
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2018
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Wonderful book . Thought provoking, informative and brave.
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