This week’s novel satisfied something that I was beginning to notice about the readings I have done for this course thus far. That is: the lack of inclusion of the Indigenous population of South and Central America. Most of the texts I have read for this course tend to make some sort of reference to […]
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Rigoberta Menchú is a resilient, strong leader of her Quiche Inidan community. Her life story we read this week was very eye-opening, sad and a reflection of the discrimination her community faced in Guatemala. Menchú grew up in the highlands of Altipl…
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Rigoberta Menchú is a resilient, strong leader of her Quiche Inidan community. Her life story we read this week was very eye-opening, sad and a reflection of the discrimination her community faced in Guatemala. Menchú grew up in the highlands of Altipl…
Another alluring, and thought-provoking read this week. Rigoberta’s recounting of the many stories and ‘highlights’ of her life, although sometimes very hard to wrap my head around or to come to terms with their severity – I was eager to continue readi…
Posted in Blogs, Menchú | Tagged with memoir, Quiché, Rigoberta, themes
Another alluring, and thought-provoking read this week. Rigoberta’s recounting of the many stories and ‘highlights’ of her life, although sometimes very hard to wrap my head around or to come to terms with their severity – I was eager to continue readi…
This was a difficult book to read. It wasn’t a piece of fiction that someone had conjured up, instead it was a recounting of an actual person’s story. Since Mama Blanca we hadn’t read a story that was based on a person’s life, so reading this was a bit hard to register because of the […]
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I really enjoyed this read. I like that Burgos-Debray stayed true to Rigoberta’s words and lived experience through her transcription of the tapes, modifying very little. I listened to sections of the audiobook as well; hearing the words aloud was very powerful, and I can only imagine what it was like to sit in the […]
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This week’s book was heavy in a way I was not expecting. Though Jon warned us of the content in this book, I listened to the audiobook and it was an emotionally draining experience. To have someone (obviously not Rigoberta herself but a human voice nonetheless) read you their story with all its tragedy and […]
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To me, this book was one of the harder ones to read. Not for the same reasons as Jorge Luis Borges, but because of how graphic the subject matter was at times. Because of this, I did find it hard to pick up, but I don’t know if this was due to the leng…
To me, this book was one of the harder ones to read. Not for the same reasons as Jorge Luis Borges, but because of how graphic the subject matter was at times. Because of this, I did find it hard to pick up, but I don’t know if this was due to the leng…
