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The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an expression of political revolt as well as religious commitment. Menchú vividly conveys the traditional beliefs of her community and her personal response to feminist and socialist ideas. Above all, these pages are illuminated by the enduring courage and passionate sense of justice of an extraordinary woman.

A leading radical historian investigates the accusations madeagainst the author of bestselling memoir I, Rigoberta Menchú . In 1984, indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu published a harrowing account of life under a military dictatorship in Guatemala. That autobiography— I, Rigoberta Menchu —transformed the study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history and brought its author international renown. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. At that point, she became the target of historians seeking to discredit her testimony and deny US complicity in the genocidal policies of the Guatemalan regime.Told here is the story of an unlettered woman who became the spokesperson for her people and clashed with the intellectual apologists of the world’s most powerful nation. What happened to her autobiography speaks volumes about power, perception and race on the world stage. This critical companion to Menchu’s work will disabuse many readers of the lies that have been told about this courageous individual.