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The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy
Author: Arturo Arias (Editor), Elizabeth Chin

Latin American Studies — A balanced appraisal of the bitter debate surrounding the autobiography of Guatemala's 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. — Guatemalan indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Mench? first came to international prominence following the 1983 publication of her memoir, I, Rigoberta Mench?, which chronicled in compelling detail th... more »e violence and misery that she and her people suffered during her country's brutal civil war. The book focused world attention on Guatemala and led to her being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. In 1999, a new book by David Stoll challenged the veracity of key details in Mench?'s account, generating a storm of controversy. Journalists and scholars squared off regarding whether Mench? had lied about her past and, if so, what that would mean about the larger truths revealed in the book.

In The Rigoberta Mench? Controversy, Arturo Arias has assembled a casebook that offers a balanced perspective on the debate. The first section of this volume collects the primary documents-newspaper articles, interviews, and official statements-in which the debate raged, many translated into English for the first time. In the second section, a distinguished group of international scholars assess the political, historical, and cultural contexts of the debate, and consider its implications for such issues as the "culture wars," historical truth, and the politics of memory. Also included is a new essay by David Stoll in which he responds to his critics.

Contributors: Luis Aceituno; Juan Jes?s Azn?rez; John Beverley, U of Pittsburgh; Allen Carey-Webb, Western Michigan U; Margarita Carrera; Duncan Earle, U of Texas, El Paso; Claudia Escobar Sarti; Claudia Ferman, U of Richmond; Dina Fern?ndez Garc?a; Eduardo Galeano; Dante Liano, U of Milan; W. George Lovell, Queen's U, Canada; Christopher H. Lutz; Octavio Mart?; Victor D. Montejo, UC Davis; Rosa Montero; Mario Roberto Morales, U of Northern Iowa; Jorge Palmieri; Daphne Patai, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Mary Louise Pratt, Stanford U; Danilo Rodr?guez; Ileana Rodr?guez, Ohio State U; Larry Rohter; Carolina Escobar Sarti; Jorge Skinner-Kle?; Elzbieta Sklodowska, Washington U; Carol A. Smith, UC, Davis; Doris Sommer, Harvard U; David Stoll, Middlebury College; Manuel V?squez Montalb?n; and Kay B. Warren, Harvard U.

Arturo Arias is director of Latin American Studies at the University of Redlands.

ISBN-13: 9780816636266
ISBN-10: 0816636265
Publication Date: 3/2001
Pages: 418
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Book Type: Paperback
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