The reading for this week, I, Rigoberta Menchu, was not difficult in the sense that it confused me, but difficult in the sense that I found it extremely hard to get through, as the reading was filled with discrimination, injustice, and inequality that was faced by Rigoberta Menchu and her family. It is a tough […]
I can’t say that I enjoyed reading I, Rigoberta Menchú. This was easily the most difficult read of the class so far and the only book that was a struggle to finish. However, “enjoyability” was hardly its intent, and I can’t imagine Menchú was considering literary interest while telling these stories to Elizabeth Burgess. If […]
This was an incredibly powerful book to read. Rigoberta Menchú is an incredible woman who has lived an unimaginable life but found strength and resilience that are hard for me to even comprehend. It’s incredible that she told her story in Spanish…
This was an incredibly powerful book to read. Rigoberta Menchú is an incredible woman who has lived an unimaginable life but found strength and resilience that are hard for me to even comprehend. It’s incredible that she told her story in Spanish…
Reading the shortest text that we have been assigned for this course, I cannot help but feel against its brevity that it was one of the most impactful. It tells a story from an unlikely origin, owing to the author’s differences in class and language compared to her readers. In this sense, I […]
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I may have been sounding repetitive in the first sentence of my blogs during this term, saying that I really enjoyed the week’s reading, but this has been truly one of my favourite reads so far. Even though it was hard because of the raw ways Rigoberta described her and her family’s struggles, and sometimes […]
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This week we read “I, Rigoberta Menchu” by Rigoberta Menchu. I found this story to be very impactful and will definitely be one I remember for a long time. I think this book was a very important read for me to deepen my knowledge of the experience of Indigenous peoples (especially the Indigenous groups in […]
Hi all, This week I discuss the book I, Rigoberta Menchu, and mainly focus on her struggle between Christianity/Catholicism and Maya-Quiche spirituality. I draw on Inca Garcilaso de la Vega for inspiration! Also, we discuss the theatrics in the story of ‘explicit not-sharing’. *THE WORD IS TESTIMONIO! Of course… haha Question: How does one …
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I studied Rigoberta Menchu and Guatemala in high school, so I wasn’t going into this novel completely blind. I knew there were controversies around this novel and Menchu’s retelling of her life events. However, I think that it doesn’t actually matter that much. The truth of the matter is that the indigenous people of Guatemala […]
I, Rigoberta Menchú is an enormously significant book that recounts the story of Rigoberta Menchú, an Indigenous activist in Guatemala and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. To my knowledge, it is also the first non-fiction or biographical novel covered in this course. Menchú, in conversation with the Elisabeth Burgos-Debray, verbally narrates her and her community’s […]
