Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-342) and index.
Contents
Story of all poor Guatemalans -- Vicente Menchu and his village: Uspantan as an agricultural frontier -- Struggle for Chimel -- Popular revolutionary war: Revolutionary justice comes to Uspantan -- Death of Petrocinio -- Massacre at the Spanish embassy -- Vicente Menchu and the Committee for Campesino Unity -- Vicente Menchu and the Guerrilla Army of the Poor -- Death of Juana Tum and the destruction of Chimel -- Death squads in Uspantan -- Vicente's daughter and the reinvention of Chimel: Where was Rigoberta? -- Rigoberta joins the revolutionary movement -- Construction of I, Rigoberta Menchu -- Rigoberta's secret -- Laureate goes home: Campaign for the Nobel -- Lonely life of a Nobel laureate -- Rigoberta and redemption -- New Chimel -- Rigoberta leaves the guerrilla movement -- Epitaph for an eyewitness account.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-342) and index.
