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David Stoll
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Westview Pr
Publication date
December 9, 1999
Pages
336
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780813336947
ISBN-10
0813336945
Dimensions
1 by 6.50 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.08 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$25.00
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§As reported by publisher
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The Logic of Violence in Civil War | Inside Rebellion | Invisible Cities | Malinche | The Reawakening | I, Rigoberta Menchu | Torture and Democracy | The Better Angels of Our Nature | The Art Of Truth-Telling About Authoritarian Rule
The Logic of Violence in Civil War | Inside Rebellion | Invisible Cities | Malinche | The Reawakening | I, Rigoberta Menchu | Torture and Democracy | The Better Angels of Our Nature | The Art Of Truth-Telling About Authoritarian Rule
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Summary
Examines the life of Menchu
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This book is about a living legend, a young Guatemalan orphaned by government death squads who said that her odyssey from a Mayan Indian village to revolutionary exile was Âthe story of all poor Guatemalans.â Published in the autobiographical I, Rigoberta Menchú, her words brought the Guatemalan armyâs atrocities to world attention and propelled her to the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize. Five years later, as her countryâs civil war ended and truth commissions prepared their reports, the Nobel laureate seemed to repudiate the life story that made her famous. ÂThat is not my book,â she said, accusing its editor, Elisabeth Burgos, of distorting her testimony.Why the disclaimer? One reason was the anthropologist interviewing other violence survivors in her home town. In Rigoberta Menchú and The Story of All Poor Guatemalans, David Stoll uses their recollections and archival sources to establish a different portrait of the laureateâs village and the violence that destroyed it. Like the imagery surrounding Ché Guevara, Rigobertaâs 1982 story served the ideological needs of the urban left and kept alive the grand old vision of Latin American revolution. It shaped the assumptions of foreign human rights activists and the new multicultural orthodoxy in North American universities. But it was not the eyewitness account it purported to be, and enshrining it as the voice of the voiceless caricatured the complex feelings of Guatemalan Indians toward the guerrillas who claimed to represent them. At a time when Rigobertaâs people were desperate to stop the fighting, her story became a way to mobilize foreign support for a defeated insurgency.By comparing a cult text with local testimony, Stoll raises troubling questions about the rebirth of the sacred in postmodern academe. Far from being innocent or moral, he argues, organizing scholarship around simplistic images of victimhood can be used to rationalize the creation of more victims. In challenging the accuracy of a widely-hailed account of Third World oppression, this book goes to the heart of contemporary debates over political correctness and identity politics.
Editions
Hardcover
from Westview Pr (January 1, 1999)
9780813335742 | details & prices | 336 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $28.00
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Paperback
Expanded edition from Westview Pr (December 24, 2007)
9780813343969 | details & prices | 352 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $39.00
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from Westview Pr (December 9, 1999)
9780813336947 | details & prices | 336 pages | 6.50 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.08 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Examines the life of Menchu
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