by Elisabeth Burgos, Rigoberta Menchú · Giunti Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788809200050
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«Mi chiamo Rigoberta Menchú» is the testimony of Rigoberta Menchú collected by Elisabeth Burgos, published by Giunti Editore in paperback (304 pages).
Elisabeth Burgos captures the voice of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan Quiché woman, in a testimony that weaves her personal memory with the traditions of her people, child labor on plantations and military repression. Menchú recounts her departure from Guatemala and how she learns Spanish to denounce the situation of indigenous people to the world.
Text in Italian; the cover includes the mention «Nobel per la pace 1992» and the book belongs to the Astrea collection.
For readers interested in indigenous testimonies, human rights and the history of Guatemala.
Rigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally.
