商品簡介
In 1984, Nobel Peace Prize–winner and indigenous rights activist RigobertaMench£ published I, RigobertaMench£, her autobiographical account of life in Guatemala undera military dictatorship to great acclaim. The book rapidly transformedthe study and understanding of modern Guatemalan history. Since then,her memoir has increasingly become a target for rightwing historians andcommentators seeking to discredit Mench£’s account and to deny thegenocide carried out by the Guatemalan military regime with US support.Greg Grandin, in this crucial accompaniment to Mench£’s work, takes onher critics to set the story straight. He investigates the historical contextand political realities that underlie Mench£’s past and the ongoing debatesurrounding it, in this substantial new work on Guatemalan history.
作者簡介
Greg Grandin is a professor of history at New York University and a Guggenheim fellow. Grandin has served on the UN Truth Commission investigating the Guatemalan Civil War and has written for the Los Angeles Times, Nation, New Statesman, and New York Times. Grandin's latest work, Fordlandia, was a 2009 National Book Awards finalist.