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 […]
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…
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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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