Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans

David Stoll teaches anthropology at Middlebury College. His other books include Is Latin America Turning Protestant? and Between Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala.

• The Story of All Poor Guatemalans; Vincente Mench And His Village; Uspantn as an Agricultural Frontier; The Struggle for Chimel; Popular Revolutionary War; Revolutionary Justice Comes to Uspantn; The Death of Petrocinio; The Massacre at the Spanish Embassy; Vicente Mench and the Committee for the Campesino Unity; Vicente Mench and the Guerrilla Army of the Poor; The Death of Juana Tum and the Destruction of Chimel; The Gulf Between Guerrilla Strategy and Popular Consciousness; The Death Squads in Uspantn; Vincentes Daughter and the Reinvention of Chimel; Where was Rigoberta?; Rigoberta Joins the Revolutionary Movement; The Construction of; I, Rigoberta Mench; Rigobertas Secret; The Campaign for the Nobel; The Lonely Life of a Nobel Laureate; Rigoberta and Redemption; The New Chimel; Rigoberta Leaves the Guerrilla Movement; Epitaph for an Eyewitness Account

"More than an expose or refutation, Stoll's account presents an increasingly complex -- and I think ultimately sympathetic -- portrait of an exceptional, eloquent individual caught up in personal and historical tragedies doing her best to maintain her integrity. The strength of this book lies not in its refutation of Rigoberta Menchúu's story but in its inquiry into what the instant worldwide appeal of her autobiography tells us about how we choose to understand recent Guatemalan history, Guatemalan society, and more generally, revolutionary struggle and authenticity in the voice of others." John Watanabe, Darmouth College"The rule of all sociological studies should be a simple one: no icons. Not Karl Marx; not Max Weber (sigh); not Michel Foucault; not anyone. Rigoberta Menchú should not be an exception. This book is going to explode over Guatemalan and Latin American Studies." Timothy Wickham-Crowley, Georgetown University