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Author Biography

Name: Rigoberta Menchú
Birth Date: January 9, 1959
Place of Birth: Chimel, Guatemala
Nationality: Guatemalan
Gender: Female
Occupations: human rights activist

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Biography of Rigoberta Menchú
1066 words, approx. 3.6 pages
Rigoberta Menchú (born 1959) was a Guatemalan human rights activist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Despite her youth she became an eloquent spokesperson for the rights of the indigenous peoples of the entire Western Hemisphere. Rigoberta M...


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...


News and Journals
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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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Fem
Alaíde y Rigoberta: en pañales de seda y en la pobreza.(activistas sociales guatemaltecas Alaíde Foppa y Rigoberta Menchú)(TT: Alaide and Rigoberta: in silk diapers and poverty.)(TA: Guatemalan social activists Alaíde Foppa and Rigoberta Me
12/01/1998: 1,820 words, approx. 6 pages
Mi tierra Tierra mía, madre de mis abuelos, quisiera acariciar tu belleza contemplar tu serenidad y acompañar tu silencio, quisiera calmar tu dolor llorar tu lágrima al ver tus hijos dispersos por el mundo regateando posada...
 


Criticism and Essays
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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