The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy,9780816636266

The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy

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ISBN13: 9780816636266
ISBN10: 0816636265
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Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary

Guatemalan indigenous rights activist Rigoberta Menchu first came to international prominence following the 1983 publication of her memoir, I, Rigoberta Menchu, which chronicled in compelling detail the 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 book by David Stoll challenged the veracity of key details in Menchu's account, generating a storm of controversy. Journalists and scholars squared off regarding whether Menchu had lied about her past and, if so, what that would mean about the larger truths revealed in her book.

In The Rigoberta Menchu 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 internat

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
I Background
Rigoberta Menchu's History within the Guatemalan Context
3(26)
Arturo Arias
I, Rigoberta Menchu and the ``Culture Wars''
29(29)
Mary Louise Pratt
II Documents: The Public Speaks
Tarnished Laureate
58(8)
Larry Rohter
Stoll: ``I Don't Seek to Destroy Menchu''
66(4)
Dina Fernandez Garcia
About Rigoberta's Lies
70(3)
Danilo Rodriguez
Lies by the Nobel Prize Winner
73(3)
Jorge Palmieri
Her
76(2)
Rosa Montero
The Pitiful Lies of Rigoberta Menchu
78(4)
Octavio Marti
Arturo Taracena Breaker His Silence
82(13)
Luis Aceituno
Rigoberta
95(2)
Manuel Vasquez Montalban
About David Stoll's Book Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans
97(2)
Jorge Skinner-Klee
Let's Shoot Rigoberta
99(8)
Eduardo Galeano
Rigoberta Menchu Tum: The Truth That Challenges the Future
The Rigoberta Menchu Tum Foundation
103(4)
Against Gerardi and Against Rigoberta, Attacks Are Continually Made to Make Them Lose Some of Their Luster
107(2)
Margarita Carrera
Rigoberta Menchu: Those Who Attack Me Humiliate the Victims Interview
109(9)
Juan Jesus Aznarez
David Stoll Breaks the Silence
118(3)
David Stoll
The Anthropologist with the Old Hat
121(4)
Dante Liano
The National Council of Mayan Education and Its Twenty-two Member Organizations Publicly Declare
125(2)
A Hamburger in Rigoberta's Black Beans
127(14)
Carolina Escobar Sarti
III Responses and Implications
Why Write an Expose of Rigoberta Menchu?
141(15)
Carol A. Smith
Textual Truth, Historical Truth, and Media Truth: Everybody Speaks about the Menchus
156(15)
Claudia Ferman
The Primacy of Larger Truths: Rigoberta Menchu and the Tradition of Native Testimony in Guatemala
171(27)
W. George Lovell
Christopher H. Lutz
Telling Truths: Taking David Stoll and the Rigoberta Menchu Expose Seriously
198(21)
Kay B. Warren
What Happens When the Subaltern Speaks: Rigoberta Menchu Multiculturalism, and the Presumption of Equal Worth
219(18)
John Beverley
Las Casas's Lies and Other Language Games
237(14)
Doris Sommer
The Poetics of Remembering the Politics of Forgetting: Rereading I, Rigoberta Menchu
251(19)
Elzbieta Sklodowska
Whose Truth? Iconicity and Accuracy in the World of Testimonial Literature
270(18)
Daphne Patai
Menchu Tales and Maya Social Landscapes: The Silencing of Words and Worlds
288(21)
Duncan Earle
Teaching, Testimony, and Truth: Rigoberta Menchu's Credibility in the North American Classroom
309(23)
Allen Carey-Webb
Between Silence and Lies: Rigoberta Va
332(19)
Ileana Rodriguez
Menchu after Stoll and the Truth Commission
351(21)
Mario Roberto Morales
Truth, Human Rights, and Representation The Case of Rigoberta Menchu
372(20)
Victor D. Montejo
The Battle of Rigoberta
392(19)
David Stoll
Contributors 411(6)
Permissions 417

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