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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Rigoberta Menchú Summary
2,405 words, approx. 8 pages Rigoberta Menchú Born 1959 Chimel, El Quiché, Guatemala Human rights activist and author Rigoberta Menchú is a dedicated advocate for the human rights of indigenous (native) peoples of Latin America. Born to a peasant Mayan Indian...
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Rigoberta Menchú Information
2,059 words, approx. 7 pages
 Rigoberta Menchú Tum (b. January 9, 1959, Chimel, Quiché, Guatemala) is an indigenous Guatemalan, of the Quiché-Maya ethnic group. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the plight of Guatemala's indigenous peoples during and after the...



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 NACLA Report on the Americas
Rigoberta Menchu files genocide charges in Spain
01/01/2000: 404 words, approx. 1 pages MADRID--On December 2. Guatemalan indigenous leader Rigoberta Mench6 appeared before the National Court of Spain in Madrid to file charges of genocide. torture and state terrorism on behalf of 200,000 people killed by the Guatemalan government during the 1980s. Mench6, winner of the 1992...
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Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Doris Sommer
8,454 words, approx. 28 pages
 In the following essay on I, Rigoberta Menchú, Sommer examines the “secrets” Menchú refers to in her autobiography, studying the role that language plays in forming and preserving an ethnic and cultural identity.
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Critical Essay by Peter Canby
6,727 words, approx. 22 pages
 In the following essay, Canby summarizes Stoll's criticisms against Menchú and I, Rigoberta Menchú, and discusses the details surrounding the autobiography's editorial development.
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Critical Review by Alice Brittin
6,391 words, approx. 21 pages
 In the following review, Brittin examines the dynamic that Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú—which is considered to be a Central American testimonio—creates between the subject and reader.


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Rigoberta Menchú by Rigoberta Menchú | |
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About 324 pages (97,206 words) in 28 products |
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