No, what hurt me very, very much was the lives of so many compañeros, fine compañeros, who weren’t ambitious for power in the least. This book recounts the life of a remarkable young peasant woman who endeavoured through exteme hardships, to make a political commitment to bring change to the lives of the Guatemalan people. While I genuinely, genuinely detest the phrase “brought tears to my eyes” (because, in my humble opinion, if it applies to fucking “Infinite Jest” or Knausgaard’s “Struggle” your outlook oProfoundly beautiful and charming, Menchú’s narrative never fails to get me in a really weird mood. I did. There is not much of a historical significance on the aspect of knowing how many tribes are in an existence till this day or about the civil war that broke out in the 1960s.
The way indigenous people all over the World were/are treated makes me sick.
Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Menchu survived and learned Spanish in order serve as an advocate for other native people. Rigoberta Menchú Tum (Spanish: [riɣoˈβeɾta menˈtʃu]; born 9 January 1959) is a K'iche' Indigenous feminist and human rights activist from Guatemala.Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally. 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.
Rigoberta's story was touching and beautiful as it was, and I felt any incongruity that appeared was not important enough to take away from my experience reading her life-history, and I didn't see how anyone could question the stories Rigoberta told.
The struggles of the poor have been undercut by false accusations that they are simply communists. I remember sitting outside, near done with the book, and dreading reading David StoI took an anthropology seminar called Narrative Lives in which the first half of the semester was spent reading 3 life-histories followed by another book that evaluated, or bluntly stated, debunked much of the narrator and interviewer's credibility.
I hadn't given much thought to the book since I heard the news that Menchu fictionalized certain parts of it, wanted to see if I still found it powerful.
No, they are hard working, desperate people who have been exploited for long decades to the benefit of the few. I believe that this is a collection of events that happened all around her - and having lived in Guatemala for a short period and seen the reconstruction efforts of the Mayan people after the war that was waged on them during the 80's with JoI know all about the controversy - did she write the book? It's an interesting truth-making practice she was involved in, creating a collective voice and porsopographical portrait. 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. The two takeaways are that discounting the importance of grassworks organizing in favor of NGO work (do people do this? Just picked it up again from the bathroom reading pile in the house in Vancouver where I'm renting a room for the year (my new roomie is really active in native radical politics). I believe that this is a collection of events that happened all around her - and having lived in Guatemala for a short period and seen the reconstruction efforts of the Mayan people after the war that was waged on them during the 80's with Jose Effrain Rios Monte, I believe them all to be true. She was always smiling. After that, her mother was caught and raped. Didn't she? I don’t think I talked about our “work” in Central America once in high school or college. The book was in good condition and came quickly in the mail The two takeaways are that discounting the importance of grassworks organizing in favor of NGO work (do people do this? Rigoberta Menchu has become an international activist for human rights, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 and has continued to be involved in Guatemalan politics.Had been looking for a book related to Guatemala as am travelling there and this seemed like an obvious one but got totally put off after reading various reviews.
She speaks beautifully of her people’s culture, of the love of her family and support in the community, and she speaks with deep sorrow of the arrest, torture and death of parents and a sibling, the degradation she experienced whenever she interacted with non-Indians in Guatemala and the powerlessness felt by most of Guatemala’s indigenous poor. As a result, her father, mother, and several siblings died. No, what hurt me very, very much was the lives of so many compañeros, fine compañeros, who weren’t ambitious for power in the least.
So, I wanted to read her story.I once heard Ms Menchu speak at a conference. into English by Ann Wright. In order to make a point the rich and powerful of Guatemala are bad, Ms. Menchu goes overboard on embellishment.