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Elisabeth Debray

Autore di Mi chiamo Rigoberta Menchu

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Mi chiamo Rigoberta Menchu (1983) — A cura di — 1,430 copie

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Data di nascita
1941
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
Venezuela
Luogo di nascita
Valencia, Venezuela

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Der autobiographische Bericht Rigoberta Menchús über die Lebenssituation der indigenen Bevölkerung Guatemalas und den dort herrschenden Bürgerkrieg rüttelte im Erscheinungsjahr 1983 die Weltöffentlichkeit auf: Menchú, eine Quiché-Maya, schildert zunächst ihre Kindheit und die bittere Armut der Mayas im guatemaltekischen Hochland. Durch negative Erfahrungen mit der Staatsgewalt und der herrschenden Klasse wendet sich ihre Familie schließlich der linken Guerillabewegung zu und engagiert sich im Widerstand gegen die Militärdikatur. Menchú berichtet über Massaker und Folter im guatemaltekischen Bürgerkrieg ebenso wie über die Rolle der Frau in der indigenen Gesellschaft und die Befreiungstheologie, welcher sie nahe steht.

Der Bericht Menchús ist literarisch etwas holprig, ihre Einstellung zu allenfalls gerechtfertigter Gewalt, ihre politische Einstellung und die Ablehnung (westlicher) Schuldbildung ist teilweise diskussionswürdig, doch ist ihr Werk einer der wenigen authentischen Berichte aus jener Zeit, welcher den Focus auf die indigene Bevölkerung legt. Menchú wurde für ihr Lebenswerk (und sohin auch für dieses Werk) 1990 mit dem Friedensnobelpreis geadelt. Nach dem erstmaligen Erscheinen des Buches mussten noch 13 Jahre vergehen, ehe die Waffen in Guatemala endgültig schwiegen.
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schmechi | 22 altre recensioni | Jan 15, 2024 |
Knowing about the testimony’s alleged inaccuracies made me read more critically than I would’ve otherwise. However many liberties may have been taken, the indigenous struggle in Guatemala is given voice here, and it can’t be denied that Menchú’s people have long suffered violence and injustice. Although the first-person narration gives Menchú ownership over her story (and mimics the intimate yet mutable nature of memory), a lot of the prose felt like a rambling soliloquy and jumped around too much.… (altro)
 
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jiyoungh | 22 altre recensioni | May 3, 2021 |
And that's when my consciousness was born"
By sally tarbox on 22 December 2017
Format: Kindle Edition
The autobiography of a young Guatemalan peasant woman who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Menchu was an uneducated Indian girl, brought up between the family home, subsistence farming in the Altiplano, and the fincas (plantations), where the family would spend some months earning a little money in almost slave-like conditions.
Menchu's story took place from the 1960s to 80s; she tells of the very traditional Mayan lifestyle - its happiness and security but also the way Indians were dismissed by the Ladino (Spanish) population as almost a sub-species. Malnutrition, defrauding of the workers, and horrific accounts of peasants killed on the fincas by the indiscriminate use of pesticides, make for grim reading.
As government-backed landowners muscled in, trying to seize the Indians' lands, Menchu and her family got caught up in the peasant struggle for rights in a corrupt regime. Murders and violence became commonplace as the authorities tried to silence them...

Menchu has a powerful story to tell. Illiterate till adulthood, she narrates her account in interviews with an anthropologist. The result is an interesting autobiography, but one that would have been much more readable if given a literary touch.
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starbox | 22 altre recensioni | Dec 21, 2017 |

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